diff --git a/sys-libs/libblockdev/libblockdev-3.3.1.ebuild b/sys-libs/libblockdev/libblockdev-3.3.1.ebuild
index 404613392b11..3db3bee51de5 100644
--- a/sys-libs/libblockdev/libblockdev-3.3.1.ebuild
+++ b/sys-libs/libblockdev/libblockdev-3.3.1.ebuild
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ src_configure() {
 
 src_test() {
 	# See http://storaged.org/libblockdev/ch03.html
-	# Largest subset which doesn't require root priviledges
+	# Largest subset which doesn't require root privileges
 	"${EPYTHON}" tests/run_tests.py --include-tags extradeps sourceonly || die
 }
 
diff --git a/sys-libs/libblockdev/libblockdev-3.4.0.ebuild b/sys-libs/libblockdev/libblockdev-3.4.0.ebuild
index cb62b555d5df..7d0696f41690 100644
--- a/sys-libs/libblockdev/libblockdev-3.4.0.ebuild
+++ b/sys-libs/libblockdev/libblockdev-3.4.0.ebuild
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ src_configure() {
 
 src_test() {
 	# See http://storaged.org/libblockdev/ch03.html
-	# Largest subset which doesn't require root priviledges
+	# Largest subset which doesn't require root privileges
 	"${EPYTHON}" tests/run_tests.py --include-tags extradeps sourceonly || die
 }