diff --git a/lib/buffer.js b/lib/buffer.js
index 03f0cb3377ea96..75b8cedd1db269 100644
--- a/lib/buffer.js
+++ b/lib/buffer.js
@@ -1229,7 +1229,7 @@ Buffer.prototype.readInt32BE = function readInt32BE(offset, noAssert) {
 //
 // An all-bits-one exponent is either a positive or negative infinity, if
 // the fraction is zero, or NaN when it is non-zero.  The standard allows
-// both quiet and signalling NaNs but since NaN is a canonical value in
+// both quiet and signaling NaNs but since NaN is a canonical value in
 // JavaScript, we cannot (and do not) distinguish between the two.
 //
 // Other exponents are regular numbers and are computed by subtracting the bias