diff --git a/test/framework/systemtools.py b/test/framework/systemtools.py
index 9186b750ec..1707d6ec54 100644
--- a/test/framework/systemtools.py
+++ b/test/framework/systemtools.py
@@ -835,9 +835,9 @@ def test_system_info(self):
     def test_det_parallelism_native(self):
         """Test det_parallelism function (native calls)."""
         self.assertTrue(det_parallelism() > 0)
-        # specified parallellism
+        # specified parallelism
         self.assertEqual(det_parallelism(par=5), 5)
-        # max parallellism caps
+        # max parallelism caps
         self.assertEqual(det_parallelism(maxpar=1), 1)
         self.assertEqual(det_parallelism(16, 1), 1)
         self.assertEqual(det_parallelism(par=5, maxpar=2), 2)