diff --git a/internal/trie/node/hash.go b/internal/trie/node/hash.go
index f4e2b6469c9..c8e206be224 100644
--- a/internal/trie/node/hash.go
+++ b/internal/trie/node/hash.go
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 // MerkleValue produces the Merkle value from the encoding of a node.
-// For root nodes, the Merkle value is always the Blak2b hash of the encoding.
+// For root nodes, the Merkle value is always the Blake2b hash of the encoding.
 // For other nodes, the Merkle value is either:
 // - the encoding if it is less than 32 bytes
 // - the Blake2b hash of the encoding