diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/Partitioner.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/Partitioner.scala
index 3081f927cc3cb..cfba43dec3111 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/Partitioner.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/Partitioner.scala
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ object Partitioner {
    * spark.default.parallelism is set, then we'll use the value from SparkContext
    * defaultParallelism, otherwise we'll use the max number of upstream partitions.
    *
-   * Unless spark.default.parallelism is set, He number of partitions will be the
+   * Unless spark.default.parallelism is set, the number of partitions will be the
    * same as the number of partitions in the largest upstream RDD, as this should
    * be least likely to cause out-of-memory errors.
    *