diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c
index c4706eb..18d158d 100644
--- a/lib/nlattr.c
+++ b/lib/nlattr.c
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
  * @policy: validation policy
  *
  * Parses a stream of attributes and stores a pointer to each attribute in
- * the tb array accessable via the attribute type. Attributes with a type
+ * the tb array accessible via the attribute type. Attributes with a type
  * exceeding maxtype will be silently ignored for backwards compatibility
  * reasons. policy may be set to NULL if no validation is required.
  *