diff --git a/kitty/options/definition.py b/kitty/options/definition.py
index e0ccd7a68..8c0db66a0 100644
--- a/kitty/options/definition.py
+++ b/kitty/options/definition.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 words are automatically displayed in RTL. That is to say, in an RTL script, the
 words "HELLO WORLD" display in kitty as "WORLD HELLO", and if you try to select
 a substring of an RTL-shaped string, you will get the character that would be
-there had the the string been LTR. For example, assuming the Hebrew word
+there had the string been LTR. For example, assuming the Hebrew word
 ירושלים, selecting the character that on the screen appears to be ם actually
 writes into the selection buffer the character י. kitty's default behavior is
 useful in conjunction with a filter to reverse the word order, however, if you