diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
index bf3dbda901d..90ade4e7d39 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
@@ -6101,7 +6101,7 @@ StartupXLOG(void)
 	/*
 	 * Reload shared-memory state for prepared transactions.  This needs to
 	 * happen before renaming the last partial segment of the old timeline as
-	 * it may be possible that we have to recovery some transactions from it.
+	 * it may be possible that we have to recover some transactions from it.
 	 */
 	RecoverPreparedTransactions();