diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/linalg/distributed/RowMatrix.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/linalg/distributed/RowMatrix.scala
index 07dfadf2f7869954da86415837843f2aea4fdf36..00d0b18c27a8d70bc5aacc1e398493378ddd78e6 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/linalg/distributed/RowMatrix.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/linalg/distributed/RowMatrix.scala
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ class RowMatrix(
     mat
   }
 
-  /** Updates or verfires the number of rows. */
+  /** Updates or verifies the number of rows. */
   private def updateNumRows(m: Long) {
     if (nRows <= 0) {
       nRows == m