diff --git a/Scripts/painter.py b/Scripts/painter.py
index 0e2f38c37..e5e4927b7 100644
--- a/Scripts/painter.py
+++ b/Scripts/painter.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #
 # this demo script illustrates pasting into an already displayed
 # photoimage.  note that the current version of Tk updates the whole
-# image everytime we paste, so to get decent performance, we split
+# image every time we paste, so to get decent performance, we split
 # the image into a set of tiles.
 #