diff --git a/flexBison/cplusplus/Makefile b/flexBison/cplusplus/Makefile
index 333e6e281f94d2f154bac3c552b6e3eb06ca1c57..bc46bdb0886d12a82d9b3ab5088ebe88948672ef 100644
--- a/flexBison/cplusplus/Makefile
+++ b/flexBison/cplusplus/Makefile
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ LEX=flex
 YACC=bison
 YFLAGS=-v -d
 # Where   -d is important to force creation of header files (*.hh)
-# but -v  is not so important. It forces creatoin of the file
+# but -v  is not so important. It forces creation of the file
 #         parser.output which is nice to have (but not 
 #         strictly necessary).