diff --git a/devscripts/make_lazy_extractors.py b/devscripts/make_lazy_extractors.py
index 0a1762dbc..878ae72b1 100644
--- a/devscripts/make_lazy_extractors.py
+++ b/devscripts/make_lazy_extractors.py
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ def build_lazy_ie(ie, name):
     return s
 
 
-# find the correct sorting and add the required base classes so that sublcasses
+# find the correct sorting and add the required base classes so that subclasses
 # can be correctly created
 classes = _ALL_CLASSES[:-1]
 ordered_cls = []