diff --git a/src/build/virtual-target.jam b/src/build/virtual-target.jam
index 3103c3051..4342a3598 100644
--- a/src/build/virtual-target.jam
+++ b/src/build/virtual-target.jam
@@ -1285,7 +1285,7 @@ class subvariant
 
     # Returns the properties specifying implicit include paths to generated
     # headers. This traverses all targets in this subvariant and subvariants
-    # referred by <implicit-dependecy> properties. For all targets of type
+    # referred by <implicit-dependency> properties. For all targets of type
     # 'target-type' (or for all targets, if 'target-type' is not specified), the
     # result will contain <$(feature)>path-to-that-target.
     #