diff --git a/src/shared/mount-util.h b/src/shared/mount-util.h
index 033fcd1f47..089fd69e29 100644
--- a/src/shared/mount-util.h
+++ b/src/shared/mount-util.h
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
  * PID1 because 16MB of free space is required. */
 #define TMPFS_LIMITS_RUN             ",size=20%,nr_inodes=800k"
 
-/* The limit used for various nested tmpfs mounts, in paricular for guests started by systemd-nspawn.
+/* The limit used for various nested tmpfs mounts, in particular for guests started by systemd-nspawn.
  * 10% of RAM (using 16GB of RAM as a baseline) translates to 400k inodes (assuming 4k each) and 25%
  * translates to 1M inodes.
  * (On the host, /tmp is configured through a .mount unit file.) */