diff --git a/roofit/roostats/src/SPlot.cxx b/roofit/roostats/src/SPlot.cxx
index b522154266867a1ac02de191c99ee836ac8dcb74..72f4731fe8864728cf9a814e65b4198329895817 100644
--- a/roofit/roostats/src/SPlot.cxx
+++ b/roofit/roostats/src/SPlot.cxx
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ void SPlot::AddSWeight( RooAbsPdf* pdf, const RooArgList &yieldsTmp,
     }
   
   // Fit yields to the data with all other variables held constant
-  // This is necessary because SPlot assumes the yields minimixe -Log(likelihood)
+  // This is necessary because SPlot assumes the yields minimise -Log(likelihood)
 
   pdf->fitTo(*fSData, RooFit::Extended(kTRUE), RooFit::SumW2Error(kTRUE), RooFit::PrintLevel(-1), RooFit::PrintEvalErrors(-1) );