diff --git a/packages/vite/src/node/optimizer/optimizer.ts b/packages/vite/src/node/optimizer/optimizer.ts
index 3ba972134ffc7a..585892d7adeb11 100644
--- a/packages/vite/src/node/optimizer/optimizer.ts
+++ b/packages/vite/src/node/optimizer/optimizer.ts
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ export function createDepsOptimizer(
               // run on the background
               optimizationResult = runOptimizeDeps(environment, knownDeps)
 
-              // If the holdUntilCrawlEnd stratey is used, we wait until crawling has
+              // If the holdUntilCrawlEnd strategy is used, we wait until crawling has
               // ended to decide if we send this result to the browser or we need to
               // do another optimize step
               if (!holdUntilCrawlEnd) {