diff --git a/core/vm/gas_table.go b/core/vm/gas_table.go
index df79f86eca..7319060e27 100644
--- a/core/vm/gas_table.go
+++ b/core/vm/gas_table.go
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/params"
 )
 
-// memoryGasCosts calculates the quadratic gas for memory expansion. It does so
+// memoryGasCost calculates the quadratic gas for memory expansion. It does so
 // only for the memory region that is expanded, not the total memory.
 func memoryGasCost(mem *Memory, newMemSize uint64) (uint64, error) {