diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/ingestion/processors/GithubDiscoveryProcessor.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/ingestion/processors/GithubDiscoveryProcessor.ts
index f5d317444e..34f7fa2782 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/ingestion/processors/GithubDiscoveryProcessor.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/ingestion/processors/GithubDiscoveryProcessor.ts
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ export class GithubDiscoveryProcessor implements CatalogProcessor {
             target: `${repository.url}${catalogPath}`,
           },
           // Not all locations may actually exist, since the user defined them as a wildcard pattern.
-          // Thus, we omit them as optional and let the downstream processor find them while not outputting
+          // Thus, we emit them as optional and let the downstream processor find them while not outputting
           // an error if it couldn't.
           true,
         ),