diff --git a/pkg/controller/podautoscaler/horizontal.go b/pkg/controller/podautoscaler/horizontal.go
index e878b271126..d0670515577 100644
--- a/pkg/controller/podautoscaler/horizontal.go
+++ b/pkg/controller/podautoscaler/horizontal.go
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ func (a *HorizontalController) processNextWorkItem(ctx context.Context) bool {
 	// happens quite often because there is race condition between adding request after resyncPeriod
 	// and removing them from queue. Request can be added by resync before previous request is
 	// removed from queue. If we didn't add request here then in this case one request would be dropped
-	// and HPA would processed after 2 x resyncPeriod.
+	// and HPA would process after 2 x resyncPeriod.
 	if !deleted {
 		a.queue.AddRateLimited(key)
 	}