diff --git a/src/libutil/split.hh b/src/libutil/split.hh
index d19d7d8ed..87a23b13e 100644
--- a/src/libutil/split.hh
+++ b/src/libutil/split.hh
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ namespace nix {
 
 // If `separator` is found, we return the portion of the string before the
 // separator, and modify the string argument to contain only the part after the
-// separator. Otherwise, wer return `std::nullopt`, and we leave the argument
+// separator. Otherwise, we return `std::nullopt`, and we leave the argument
 // string alone.
 static inline std::optional<std::string_view> splitPrefixTo(std::string_view & string, char separator) {
     auto sepInstance = string.find(separator);