diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/Check.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/Check.java
index 7ea4f7516..5a1125480 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/Check.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/Check.java
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ public abstract class Check extends AbstractViolationReporter
     }
 
     /**
-     * Initialse the check. This is the time to verify that the check has
+     * Initialise the check. This is the time to verify that the check has
      * everything required to perform it job.
      */
     public void init()