diff --git a/scripts/windows/travisbuild.sh b/scripts/windows/travisbuild.sh
index 42f7d788d..2ef0dcc01 100644
--- a/scripts/windows/travisbuild.sh
+++ b/scripts/windows/travisbuild.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ set -e
 
 # this gets executed by Travis when building an installer for Windows
 # it gets started from inside the subsurface directory
-# with all the other projects downloaded and installed in parralel to
+# with all the other projects downloaded and installed in parallel to
 # subsurface; in order to be compatible with the assumed layout, we
 # need to create the secondary build directory
 cd ${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/..