diff --git a/scope b/scope
index 49aa7d3fc..5611e1f5d 100755
--- a/scope
+++ b/scope
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ case "$COMMAND" in
         # is not making any attempt to do escaping at all, we might as well try.
         # shellcheck disable=SC2039
         quoted=$(printf '%q ' "$@" 2>/dev/null || true)
-        # printf %q behaves oddly with zero args (it acts as though it recieved one empty arg)
+        # printf %q behaves oddly with zero args (it acts as though it received one empty arg)
         # so we ignore that case.
         if [ -z "$quoted" ] || [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
             quoted="$*"