diff --git a/python_scripts/parameter_tuning_nested.py b/python_scripts/parameter_tuning_nested.py
index 4a20f9285..37fe73a9c 100644
--- a/python_scripts/parameter_tuning_nested.py
+++ b/python_scripts/parameter_tuning_nested.py
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@
 #
 # For each outer cross-validation split (indexed on the left-hand side),
 # the best hyper-parameters are selected based on the validation scores
-# (computed on the greed samples) and a model is refitted on the concatenation
+# (computed on the green samples) and a model is refitted on the concatenation
 # of the red and green samples for that outer CV iteration.
 #
 # The generalization performance of the 5 refitted models from the outer CV