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 **TL;DR:** Linting your Dockerfile is an important step to identify issues in your Dockerfile which differ from best practices. By checking for potential flaws using a specialised Docker linter, performance and security improvements can be easily identified, saving countless hours of wasted time or security issues in production code.
 
-**Otherwise:** Mistakenely the Dockerfile creator left Root as the production user, and also used an image from unknown source repository. This could be avoided with with just a simple linter.
+**Otherwise:** Mistakenly the Dockerfile creator left Root as the production user, and also used an image from unknown source repository. This could be avoided with with just a simple linter.
 
 🔗 [**Read More: Lint your Dockerfile**](/sections/docker/lint-dockerfile.md)