diff --git a/daemon/execdriver/execdrivers/execdrivers.go b/daemon/execdriver/execdrivers/execdrivers.go
index 18db1f8026..2e18454a09 100644
--- a/daemon/execdriver/execdrivers/execdrivers.go
+++ b/daemon/execdriver/execdrivers/execdrivers.go
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import (
 func NewDriver(name, root, initPath string, sysInfo *sysinfo.SysInfo) (execdriver.Driver, error) {
 	switch name {
 	case "lxc":
-		// we want to five the lxc driver the full docker root because it needs
+		// we want to give the lxc driver the full docker root because it needs
 		// to access and write config and template files in /var/lib/docker/containers/*
 		// to be backwards compatible
 		return lxc.NewDriver(root, sysInfo.AppArmor)