diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/core/userdetails/UserDetailsService.java b/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/core/userdetails/UserDetailsService.java
index bdab2b878e..b4676561c3 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/core/userdetails/UserDetailsService.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/core/userdetails/UserDetailsService.java
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ public interface UserDetailsService {
 
     /**
      * Locates the user based on the username. In the actual implementation, the search may possibly be case
-     * insensitive, or case insensitive depending on how the implementation instance is configured. In this case, the
+     * sensitive, or case insensitive depending on how the implementation instance is configured. In this case, the
      * <code>UserDetails</code> object that comes back may have a username that is of a different case than what was
      * actually requested..
      *