diff --git a/src/generic/numberparsing.h b/src/generic/numberparsing.h
index b8d481360..d883917d6 100644
--- a/src/generic/numberparsing.h
+++ b/src/generic/numberparsing.h
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ really_inline bool is_integer(char c) {
 }
 
 // We need to check that the character following a zero is valid. This is
-// probably frequent and it is hard than it looks. We are building all of this
+// probably frequent and it is harder than it looks. We are building all of this
 // just to differentiate between 0x1 (invalid), 0,1 (valid) 0e1 (valid)...
 const bool structural_or_whitespace_or_exponent_or_decimal_negated[256] = {
     1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
@@ -557,4 +557,4 @@ really_inline bool parse_number(UNUSED const uint8_t *const buf,
 #endif // SIMDJSON_SKIPNUMBERPARSING
 }
 
-} // namespace numberparsing
\ No newline at end of file
+} // namespace numberparsing