diff --git a/synapse/push/bulk_push_rule_evaluator.py b/synapse/push/bulk_push_rule_evaluator.py
index 1c4e54ba44..c00acfd87e 100644
--- a/synapse/push/bulk_push_rule_evaluator.py
+++ b/synapse/push/bulk_push_rule_evaluator.py
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ class BulkPushRuleEvaluator:
     Runs push rules for all users in a room.
     This is faster than running PushRuleEvaluator for each user because it
     fetches all the rules for all the users in one (batched) db query
-    rarher than doing multiple queries per-user. It currently uses
+    rather than doing multiple queries per-user. It currently uses
     the same logic to run the actual rules, but could be optimised further
     (see https://matrix.org/jira/browse/SYN-562)
     """