diff --git a/src/gen/db/dbconst.py b/src/gen/db/dbconst.py
index 04293b5db..1765893b2 100644
--- a/src/gen/db/dbconst.py
+++ b/src/gen/db/dbconst.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ DBRECOVFN = "need_recover"  # File name of recovery file
 BDBVERSFN = "bdbversion.txt"# File name of Berkeley DB version file
 DBLOGNAME = ".Db"           # Name of logger
 DBMODE_R  = "r"             # Read-only access
-DBMODE_W  = "w"             # Full Reaw/Write access
+DBMODE_W  = "w"             # Full Read/Write access
 DBPAGE    = 16384           # Size of the pages used to hold items in the database
 DBMODE    = 0666            # Unix mode for database creation
 DBCACHE   = 0x4000000       # Size of the shared memory buffer pool