diff --git a/util/unicode/main.cpp b/util/unicode/main.cpp
index 3f7f3956f97..91015411a07 100644
--- a/util/unicode/main.cpp
+++ b/util/unicode/main.cpp
@@ -2524,7 +2524,7 @@ struct OverlapGraphEdge
 };
 
 /*
-    Returns a common supersting of all inputs.
+    Returns a common superstring of all inputs.
 
     Ideally this function would return the superstring of the smallest
     possible size, but the shortest common superstring problem is know to be