diff --git a/internal/encoding/wire/wire.go b/internal/encoding/wire/wire.go
index ba0abf6..e66123a 100644
--- a/internal/encoding/wire/wire.go
+++ b/internal/encoding/wire/wire.go
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@
 	return append(AppendVarint(b, uint64(len(v))), v...)
 }
 
-// AppendString appends v to b as a lenght-prefixed bytes value.
+// AppendString appends v to b as a length-prefixed bytes value.
 func AppendString(b []byte, v string) []byte {
 	return append(AppendVarint(b, uint64(len(v))), v...)
 }