diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/annotations/Instantiator.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/annotations/Instantiator.java
index eeb10546d2..be19cd880b 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/annotations/Instantiator.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/annotations/Instantiator.java
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.CONSTRUCTOR;
 import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;
 
 /**
- * Marks the canonical constructor to be used for instantation of an embeddable.
+ * Marks the canonical constructor to be used for instantiation of an embeddable.
  * This will implicitly add a special {@link EmbeddableInstantiator}.
  *
  * @since 6.2