diff --git a/modules/angular2/src/core/render/dom/view/proto_view_merger.ts b/modules/angular2/src/core/render/dom/view/proto_view_merger.ts
index 5849192f1e..c2cd2442a5 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/src/core/render/dom/view/proto_view_merger.ts
+++ b/modules/angular2/src/core/render/dom/view/proto_view_merger.ts
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ function createRootElementFromFragments(fragments: Node[][]): Element {
   for (var i = 0; i < fragments.length; i++) {
     var fragment = fragments[i];
     if (i >= 1) {
-      // Note: We need to seprate fragments by a comment so that sibling
+      // Note: We need to separate fragments by a comment so that sibling
       // text nodes don't get merged when we serialize the DomProtoView into a string
       // and parse it back again.
       DOM.appendChild(rootNode, DOM.createComment('|'));