diff --git a/src/basic/stat-util.c b/src/basic/stat-util.c
index ab45eda0ed..4040b17226 100644
--- a/src/basic/stat-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/stat-util.c
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ const char* inode_type_to_string(mode_t m) {
                 return "sock";
         }
 
-        /* Note anonmyous inodes in the kernel will have a zero type. Hence fstat() of an eventfd() will
+        /* Note anonymous inodes in the kernel will have a zero type. Hence fstat() of an eventfd() will
          * return an .st_mode where we'll return NULL here! */
         return NULL;
 }