diff --git a/src/Build/Construction/ProjectRootElement.cs b/src/Build/Construction/ProjectRootElement.cs
index cb08aee7b3e..b468e0f1fac 100644
--- a/src/Build/Construction/ProjectRootElement.cs
+++ b/src/Build/Construction/ProjectRootElement.cs
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ private ProjectRootElement(XmlDocumentWithLocation document, ProjectRootElementC
///
/// Initialize a ProjectRootElement instance from an existing document.
- /// Helper constructor for the > mehtod which needs to check if the document parses
+ /// Helper constructor for the > mehtod which needs to check if the document parses
///
///
/// Do not make public: we do not wish to expose particular XML API's.