diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/CapacityScheduler.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/CapacityScheduler.java
index 1467476be56..840a31d57a2 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/CapacityScheduler.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/CapacityScheduler.java
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ public class CapacityScheduler extends
         throw new YarnRuntimeException("RM uses DefaultResourceCalculator which"
             + " used only memory as resource-type but invalid resource-types"
             + " specified " + ResourceUtils.getResourceTypes() + ". Use"
-            + " DomainantResourceCalculator instead to make effective use of"
+            + " DominantResourceCalculator instead to make effective use of"
             + " these resource-types");
       }
       this.usePortForNodeName = this.conf.getUsePortForNodeName();