diff --git a/test/framework/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/test/ESTestCase.java b/test/framework/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/test/ESTestCase.java
index fc34106a8da..c9ecf2ec639 100644
--- a/test/framework/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/test/ESTestCase.java
+++ b/test/framework/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/test/ESTestCase.java
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ public abstract class ESTestCase extends LuceneTestCase {
     private static final GeohashGenerator geohashGenerator = new GeohashGenerator();
 
     public static class GeohashGenerator extends CodepointSetGenerator {
-        private final static char[] ASCII_SET = "0123456789bcdefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyz".toCharArray();
+        private static final char[] ASCII_SET = "0123456789bcdefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyz".toCharArray();
 
         public GeohashGenerator() {
             super(ASCII_SET);