diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 96b181fd21..6c5b8aab9a 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ External library support:
   --enable-libopencore-amrwb enable AMR-WB decoding via libopencore-amrwb [no]
   --enable-libopencv       enable video filtering via libopencv [no]
   --enable-libopenh264     enable H.264 encoding via OpenH264 [no]
-  --enable-libopenjpeg     enable JPEG 2000 de/encoding via OpenJPEG [no]
+  --enable-libopenjpeg     enable JPEG 2000 encoding via OpenJPEG [no]
   --enable-libopenmpt      enable decoding tracked files via libopenmpt [no]
   --enable-libopenvino     enable OpenVINO as a DNN module backend
                            for DNN based filters like dnn_processing [no]