diff --git a/sys/ufs/ufs/dirhash.h b/sys/ufs/ufs/dirhash.h
index d38c1112ff5c..1f9097e58af3 100644
--- a/sys/ufs/ufs/dirhash.h
+++ b/sys/ufs/ufs/dirhash.h
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
  * placed at the most-recently-used end of the list. This helps a lot
  * in the worst-case case scenario where every directory access is
  * to a directory that is not hashed (i.e. the working set of hash
- * candidates is much larger than the configured memry limit). In this
+ * candidates is much larger than the configured memory limit). In this
  * case it limits the number of hash builds to 1/DH_SCOREINIT of the
  * number of accesses.
  */