diff --git a/utf8proc.h b/utf8proc.h
index 6cf1b72..c977192 100644
--- a/utf8proc.h
+++ b/utf8proc.h
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ UTF8PROC_DLLEXPORT utf8proc_ssize_t utf8proc_decompose_char(
  * string and orders the decomposed sequences correctly.
  *
  * If the @ref UTF8PROC_NULLTERM flag in `options` is set, processing
- * will be stopped, when a NULL byte is encounted, otherwise `strlen`
+ * will be stopped, when a NULL byte is encountered, otherwise `strlen`
  * bytes are processed.  The result (in the form of 32-bit unicode
  * codepoints) is written into the buffer being pointed to by
  * `buffer` (which must contain at least `bufsize` entries).  In case of