diff --git a/http_parser.c b/http_parser.c
index 9be003e7..13a1f9b7 100644
--- a/http_parser.c
+++ b/http_parser.c
@@ -1839,7 +1839,7 @@ size_t http_parser_execute (http_parser *parser,
         /* Here we call the headers_complete callback. This is somewhat
          * different than other callbacks because if the user returns 1, we
          * will interpret that as saying that this message has no body. This
-         * is needed for the annoying case of recieving a response to a HEAD
+         * is needed for the annoying case of receiving a response to a HEAD
          * request.
          *
          * We'd like to use CALLBACK_NOTIFY_NOADVANCE() here but we cannot, so