diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/220_synchronize_add_quiet_option.yml b/changelogs/fragments/220_synchronize_add_quiet_option.yml
index a9a7cb1..5c3c3d3 100644
--- a/changelogs/fragments/220_synchronize_add_quiet_option.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/220_synchronize_add_quiet_option.yml
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 minor_changes:
-- synchronize - add the ``quiet`` option to supress non-error messages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.posix/issues/171).
+- synchronize - add the ``quiet`` option to suppress output messages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.posix/issues/171).
diff --git a/plugins/modules/synchronize.py b/plugins/modules/synchronize.py
index 3a427f9..e03124f 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/synchronize.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/synchronize.py
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ def main():
             delay_updates=dict(type='bool', default=True),
             mode=dict(type='str', default='push', choices=['pull', 'push']),
             link_dest=dict(type='list', elements='str'),
-            quiet=dict(type='bool',default=False)
+            quiet=dict(type='bool', default=False)
         ),
         supports_check_mode=True,
     )
diff --git a/tests/integration/targets/synchronize/tasks/main.yml b/tests/integration/targets/synchronize/tasks/main.yml
index ac1aa03..0814728 100644
--- a/tests/integration/targets/synchronize/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/tests/integration/targets/synchronize/tasks/main.yml
@@ -227,3 +227,36 @@
   - directory_a/foo.txt
   - directory_a
   - directory_b
+- name: synchronize files with quiet option
+  synchronize:
+    src: '{{output_dir}}/foo.txt'
+    dest: '{{output_dir}}/foo.result'
+    quiet: true 
+  register: sync_result
+  ignore_errors: true
+- assert:
+    that:
+    - '''--quiet'' in sync_result.cmd'
+- name: Cleanup
+  file:
+    state: absent
+    path: '{{output_dir}}/{{item}}'
+  with_items:
+  - foo.result
+  - bar.result
+- name: synchronize files without quiet option 
+  synchronize:
+    src: '{{output_dir}}/foo.txt'
+    dest: '{{output_dir}}/foo.result'
+  register: sync_result
+  ignore_errors: true
+- assert:
+    that:
+    - '''--quiet'' not in sync_result.cmd'
+- name: Cleanup
+  file:
+    state: absent
+    path: '{{output_dir}}/{{item}}'
+  with_items:
+  - foo.result
+  - bar.result