diff --git a/vcsh b/vcsh
index 7583aca9e64a4d9a52b22416727d50d6e31d6200..78a94379335cd9c3c831bb7e34d80b222683139b 100755
--- a/vcsh
+++ b/vcsh
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ write_gitignore() {
 	done | sort -u)
 
 	# Contrary to GNU mktemp, mktemp on BSD/OSX requires a template for temp files
-	# Use the template GNU mktemo defaults to
+	# Use the template GNU mktemp defaults to
 	# The downside to this is that we need to account for unset TMPDIR
 	tempfile=$(mktemp "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/tmp.XXXXXXXXXX") || fatal "could not create tempfile: '${tempfile}'" 51