diff --git a/src/shims/foreign_items/posix.rs b/src/shims/foreign_items/posix.rs
index 5bb556aaa50..9e85bcc66bb 100644
--- a/src/shims/foreign_items/posix.rs
+++ b/src/shims/foreign_items/posix.rs
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ pub trait EvalContextExt<'mir, 'tcx: 'mir>: crate::MiriEvalContextExt<'mir, 'tcx
                 this.write_null(dest)?;
             }
 
-            // Incomplete shims that we "stub out" just to get pre-main initialziation code to work.
+            // Incomplete shims that we "stub out" just to get pre-main initialization code to work.
             // These shims are enabled only when the caller is in the standard library.
             | "pthread_attr_init"
             | "pthread_attr_destroy"