diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 39c24ebe9cfd4e75b8841deec06aa6d78c91c2ad..52f96d78c0e84bf1927fd881e87bd51f76f32a13 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ unsigned long zone_nr_free_pages(struct zone *zone);
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 
 /*
- * The NUMA zonelists are doubled becausse we need zonelists that restrict the
+ * The NUMA zonelists are doubled because we need zonelists that restrict the
  * allocations to a single node for GFP_THISNODE.
  *
  * [0]	: Zonelist with fallback