diff --git a/src/wp-includes/class-wp-query.php b/src/wp-includes/class-wp-query.php
index 21127dc755..52121e2308 100644
--- a/src/wp-includes/class-wp-query.php
+++ b/src/wp-includes/class-wp-query.php
@@ -5005,7 +5005,7 @@ class WP_Query {
 		 *
 		 * These arrays are sorted in the query generator for the purposes of the
 		 * WHERE clause but the arguments are not modified as they can be used for
-		 * the orderby clase.
+		 * the orderby clause.
 		 *
 		 * Their use in the orderby clause will generate a different SQL query so
 		 * they can be sorted for the cache key generation.