diff --git a/package/make/make.mk b/package/make/make.mk
index e194e15873..1d1a976eb4 100644
--- a/package/make/make.mk
+++ b/package/make/make.mk
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ HOST_MAKE_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf
 HOST_MAKE_CONF_OPTS = --without-guile
 
 # Configure host-make binary to be 'host-make' to ensure it isn't
-# accidently used by packages when they invoke recursive / sub-make.
+# accidentally used by packages when they invoke recursive / sub-make.
 HOST_MAKE_CONF_OPTS += --program-prefix=host-
 
 $(eval $(autotools-package))