diff --git a/pkg/controller/podautoscaler/horizontal.go b/pkg/controller/podautoscaler/horizontal.go
index 65a7a6f170..efad123111 100644
--- a/pkg/controller/podautoscaler/horizontal.go
+++ b/pkg/controller/podautoscaler/horizontal.go
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ func (a *HorizontalController) computeReplicasForMetrics(hpa *autoscalingv2.Hori
 		}
 	}
 
-	setCondition(hpa, autoscalingv2.ScalingActive, v1.ConditionTrue, "ValidMetricFound", "the HPA was able to succesfully calculate a replica count from %s", metric)
+	setCondition(hpa, autoscalingv2.ScalingActive, v1.ConditionTrue, "ValidMetricFound", "the HPA was able to successfully calculate a replica count from %s", metric)
 	return replicas, metric, statuses, timestamp, nil
 }