diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/ml/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/action/TransportInferTrainedModelDeploymentAction.java b/x-pack/plugin/ml/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/action/TransportInferTrainedModelDeploymentAction.java
index e0088a0c21f3a..1745e2293efe1 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/ml/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/action/TransportInferTrainedModelDeploymentAction.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/ml/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/action/TransportInferTrainedModelDeploymentAction.java
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ protected void taskOperation(
     }
 
     /**
-     * Create a listener that groups the results is the correct order.
+     * Create a listener that groups the results in the correct order.
      * Exceptions are converted to {@link ErrorInferenceResults},
      * the listener will never call {@code finalListener::onFailure}
      * instead failures are returned as inference results.