diff --git a/REUSE.toml b/REUSE.toml
index a3c5a3284c..c973868b43 100644
--- a/REUSE.toml
+++ b/REUSE.toml
@@ -49,5 +49,5 @@ path = [
 ]
 SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al."
 SPDX-License-Identifier = "curl"
-# If there is licensing/copyright information in or next to these files, perfer that
+# If there is licensing/copyright information in or next to these files, prefer that
 precedence = "closest"