diff --git a/src/go/rpk/pkg/cli/group/group.go b/src/go/rpk/pkg/cli/group/group.go
index 20cc27327c060..b3cc419346473 100644
--- a/src/go/rpk/pkg/cli/group/group.go
+++ b/src/go/rpk/pkg/cli/group/group.go
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ member to the group, then each of the three members will consume two
 partitions. This allows you to horizontally scale consuming of topics.
 
 The unit of scaling is a single partition. If you add more consumers to a group
-than there are are total partitions to consume, then some consumers will be
+than there are total partitions to consume, then some consumers will be
 idle. More commonly, you have many more partitions than consumer group members
 and each member consumes a chunk of available partitions. One scenario where
 you may want more members than partitions is if you want active standby's to