diff --git a/spring-cloud-sleuth-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/sleuth/Span.java b/spring-cloud-sleuth-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/sleuth/Span.java
index 7cf921740..fc393daff 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-sleuth-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/sleuth/Span.java
+++ b/spring-cloud-sleuth-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/sleuth/Span.java
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ public class Span implements SpanContext {
 
 	/**
 	 * Span and trace id got extracted from a carrier?
-	 * We are adding data to the same span created by a remote client2
+	 * We are adding data to the same span created by a remote client
 	 *
 	 * @since 1.3.0
 	 */