diff --git a/Lib/tempfile.py b/Lib/tempfile.py
index d725a9d0b64..85d58e6518f 100644
--- a/Lib/tempfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tempfile.py
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ class SpooledTemporaryFile:
         else:
             # Setting newline="\n" avoids newline translation;
             # this is important because otherwise on Windows we'd
-            # hget double newline translation upon rollover().
+            # get double newline translation upon rollover().
             self._file = _io.StringIO(encoding=encoding, newline="\n")
         self._max_size = max_size
         self._rolled = False