diff --git a/src/_pytest/pathlib.py b/src/_pytest/pathlib.py
index 5063c4651..39f23b85b 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/pathlib.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/pathlib.py
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ def _force_symlink(root, target, link_to):
     """helper to create the current symlink
 
     it's full of race conditions that are reasonably ok to ignore
-    for the contex of best effort linking to the latest testrun
+    for the context of best effort linking to the latest testrun
 
     the presumption being thatin case of much parallelism
     the inaccuracy is going to be acceptable