diff --git a/nifty/spaces/space/space.py b/nifty/spaces/space/space.py
index dc49c0c4c1d158c3b6d20917ccd652c848299f4e..4b239141be6daaeab1eb1fba2dc3904a52cef906 100644
--- a/nifty/spaces/space/space.py
+++ b/nifty/spaces/space/space.py
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ class Space(DomainObject):
             If the hermitian decomposition is done via computing the half
             sums and differences of `x` and mirrored `x`, all points except the
             fixed points lose half of their variance. If `x` is complex also
-            the lose half of their variance since the real(/imaginary) part
+            they lose half of their variance since the real(/imaginary) part
             gets lost.
 
         Returns