diff --git a/include/simdjson/padded_string.h b/include/simdjson/padded_string.h
index 855d1d730..6cf115d44 100644
--- a/include/simdjson/padded_string.h
+++ b/include/simdjson/padded_string.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 
 namespace simdjson {
-// low-level function to allocate memory with padding so we can read passed the
+// low-level function to allocate memory with padding so we can read past the
 // "length" bytes safely. if you must provide a pointer to some data, create it
 // with this function: length is the max. size in bytes of the string caller is
 // responsible to free the memory (free(...))