diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/net/imap/IMAP.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/net/imap/IMAP.java
index 272a534..ddcca6a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/net/imap/IMAP.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/net/imap/IMAP.java
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 
     // RFC 3501, section 5.1.3. It should be "modified UTF-7".
     /**
-     * The default control socket ecoding.
+     * The default control socket encoding.
      */
     protected static final String __DEFAULT_ENCODING = "ISO-8859-1";