diff --git a/src/librustc/ty/constness.rs b/src/librustc/ty/constness.rs
index 1ea8cbba46e..6df49683f68 100644
--- a/src/librustc/ty/constness.rs
+++ b/src/librustc/ty/constness.rs
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ fn is_const_intrinsic(tcx: TyCtxt<'_>, def_id: DefId) -> Option<bool> {
                     // This whitelist is a list of intrinsics that have a miri-engine implementation
                     // and can thus be called when enabling enough feature gates. The similar
                     // whitelist in `is_intrinsic_min_const_fn` (in this file), exists for allowing
-                    // the intrinsics to be transitively called by stable const fns.
+                    // the intrinsics to be called by stable const fns.
                     | sym::caller_location
 
                     | sym::min_align_of