diff --git a/src/uchardet.h b/src/uchardet.h
index 0ad1de1..bc17694 100644
--- a/src/uchardet.h
+++ b/src/uchardet.h
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ void uchardet_delete(uchardet_t ud);
 int uchardet_handle_data(uchardet_t ud, const char * data, size_t len);
 
 /**
- * Notify an end of data to an encoding detctor.
+ * Notify an end of data to an encoding detector.
  * @param ud [in] handle of a instance of uchardet
  */
 void uchardet_data_end(uchardet_t ud);