diff --git a/src/pretix/control/templates/pretixcontrol/events/create_basics.html b/src/pretix/control/templates/pretixcontrol/events/create_basics.html
index de40188f3..d5ea22fc3 100644
--- a/src/pretix/control/templates/pretixcontrol/events/create_basics.html
+++ b/src/pretix/control/templates/pretixcontrol/events/create_basics.html
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
                 </div>
                 <div class="slug-length alert alert-warning helper-display-none-soft">
                     {% blocktrans trimmed %}
-                        We strongly recommend against using short forms of more then 16 characters.
+                        We strongly recommend against using short forms of more than 16 characters.
                     {% endblocktrans %}
                 </div>
             </div>