diff --git a/src/quick/doc/src/appdevguide/porting.qdoc b/src/quick/doc/src/appdevguide/porting.qdoc
index 3ac13cd255855005b63953f6299bbaf0d6458c92..6bb2a75074c95c5001cc65a00ba66a83081468fd 100644
--- a/src/quick/doc/src/appdevguide/porting.qdoc
+++ b/src/quick/doc/src/appdevguide/porting.qdoc
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ new applications.)
 \section3 QDeclarativeItem and QDeclarativeView
 
 When porting to QQuickItem, note that QDeclarativeItem inherited from QGraphicsItem; in contrast,
-QQuickItem inherits directly from QObject, and any QGraphicsItem-specific functionality is longer
+QQuickItem inherits directly from QObject, and any QGraphicsItem-specific functionality is no longer
 available. In particular, QQuickItem does not have a \c paint() method for performing custom
 rendering through the QPainter API. Instead, in Qt 5, custom rendering should be performed through
 the new \c QSG* classes to take full advantage of the scene graph. See the \l {Qt Quick Scene Graph}