diff --git a/pkg/proxy/ipvs/proxier.go b/pkg/proxy/ipvs/proxier.go
index 8527b410e33..21b4e550422 100644
--- a/pkg/proxy/ipvs/proxier.go
+++ b/pkg/proxy/ipvs/proxier.go
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ type Proxier struct {
 	// sets.String is used here since we end up calculating endpoint topology multiple times for the same Service
 	// if it has multiple ports but each Service should only be counted once.
 	serviceNoLocalEndpointsInternal sets.String
-	// serviceNoLocalEndpointsExternal irepresents the set of services that couldn't be applied
+	// serviceNoLocalEndpointsExternal represents the set of services that couldn't be applied
 	// due to the absence of any endpoints when the external traffic policy is "Local".
 	// It is used to publish the sync_proxy_rules_no_endpoints_total
 	// metric with the traffic_policy label set to "external".