diff --git a/numpy/lib/recfunctions.py b/numpy/lib/recfunctions.py
index f722a89d1206..b3c210fff721 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/recfunctions.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/recfunctions.py
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ def merge_arrays(seqarrays,
     # Only one item in the input sequence ?
     if (len(seqarrays) == 1):
         seqarrays = np.asanyarray(seqarrays[0])
-    # Do we have a single ndarary as input ?
+    # Do we have a single ndarray as input ?
     if isinstance(seqarrays, (ndarray, np.void)):
         seqdtype = seqarrays.dtype
         if (not flatten) or \