diff --git a/dune/istl/basearray.hh b/dune/istl/basearray.hh
index 513e3bf973022e39294d78a0418a9200a779420a..5a32429932e0f69e37d4be90a2a1bca55193e356 100644
--- a/dune/istl/basearray.hh
+++ b/dune/istl/basearray.hh
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ namespace Dune {
       }
 
       /**
-       * @brief offset from the fist entry.
+       * @brief offset from the first entry.
        *
        * An iterator positioned at the beginning
        * has to be increment this amount of times to