diff --git a/spring-batch-infrastructure/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/item/file/transform/DelimitedLineTokenizer.java b/spring-batch-infrastructure/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/item/file/transform/DelimitedLineTokenizer.java
index 8c1bf5750..5eb06fe13 100644
--- a/spring-batch-infrastructure/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/item/file/transform/DelimitedLineTokenizer.java
+++ b/spring-batch-infrastructure/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/item/file/transform/DelimitedLineTokenizer.java
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ public class DelimitedLineTokenizer extends AbstractLineTokenizer {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Is this string surrounded by quite characters?
+	 * Is this string surrounded by quote characters?
 	 * 
 	 * @param value
 	 * @return true if the value starts and ends with the {@link #quoteCharacter}