diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/association.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/association.rb
index 8ef9f65694..54971e61e1 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/association.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/association.rb
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
       # The scope for this association.
       #
       # Note that the association_scope is merged into the target_scope only when the
-      # scoped method is called. This is because at that point the call may be surrounded
+      # scope method is called. This is because at that point the call may be surrounded
       # by scope.scoping { ... } or with_scope { ... } etc, which affects the scope which
       # actually gets built.
       def association_scope