diff --git a/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb b/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
index 28f521452..a5be71953 100644
--- a/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
+++ b/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ def truncatewords(input, words = 15, truncate_string = "...")
       wordlist = begin
         input.split(" ", words + 1)
       rescue RangeError
-        # integer too big for Strin#split, but we can semantically assume no truncation is needed
+        # integer too big for String#split, but we can semantically assume no truncation is needed
         return input if words + 1 > MAX_I32
         raise # unexpected error
       end