diff --git a/pkg/scheduler/scheduler.go b/pkg/scheduler/scheduler.go
index f25295247..7142a56ee 100644
--- a/pkg/scheduler/scheduler.go
+++ b/pkg/scheduler/scheduler.go
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import (
 
 // For mocking purposes.
 // This little bit of wrapping needs to be done because go doesn't do
-// covariance, but it does coerse *time.Timer into stoppable implicitly if we
+// covariance, but it does coerce *time.Timer into stoppable implicitly if we
 // write it out like so.
 var afterFunc = func(d time.Duration, f func()) stoppable {
 	return time.AfterFunc(d, f)