diff --git a/crates/workspace/src/pane.rs b/crates/workspace/src/pane.rs
index ab8e248ac0..7f164c6e69 100644
--- a/crates/workspace/src/pane.rs
+++ b/crates/workspace/src/pane.rs
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ impl Pane {
         // We not only check whether our focus handle contains focus, but also
         // whether the active_item might have focus, because we might have just activated an item
         // but that hasn't rendered yet.
-        // So before the next render, we might have transfered focus
+        // So before the next render, we might have transferred focus
         // to the item and `focus_handle.contains_focus` returns false because the `active_item`
         // is not hooked up to us in the dispatch tree.
         self.focus_handle.contains_focused(cx)