diff --git a/Inst_eddies/set_max_speed.f90 b/Inst_eddies/set_max_speed.f90
index 4d83119025b0df51271cf192415d34a29d612b1f..cea64de059a7286ccb9d6fd038a8d0faccb1f842 100644
--- a/Inst_eddies/set_max_speed.f90
+++ b/Inst_eddies/set_max_speed.f90
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ contains
     ! geometrical processing done here is non-ambiguous. The
     ! longitudes of outside points should be in the interval
     ! [corner(1), corner(1) + step(1) * (size(ssh, 1) - 1)] as there
-    ! will be no automatic shifting by a mulitple of 360 degrees.
+    ! will be no automatic shifting by a multiple of 360 degrees.
 
     use, intrinsic:: IEEE_ARITHMETIC, only: IEEE_IS_NAN