diff --git a/libavutil/frame.h b/libavutil/frame.h
index b5d4694b929ae6095d454e6d85d4fa82611dc40b..378538c650b7ad515d749e0cdfc09fa86fb6bb91 100644
--- a/libavutil/frame.h
+++ b/libavutil/frame.h
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ typedef struct AVFrame {
      * plane must be the same size.
      *
      * For video the linesizes should be multiplies of the CPUs alignment
-     * preferrance, this is 16 or 32 for modern desktop CPUs.
+     * preference, this is 16 or 32 for modern desktop CPUs.
      * Some code requires such alignment other code can be slower without
      * correct alignment, for yet other it makes no difference.
      */