diff --git a/chain/messagepool/check.go b/chain/messagepool/check.go
index fdec910c4ea..9363c458553 100644
--- a/chain/messagepool/check.go
+++ b/chain/messagepool/check.go
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ func (mp *MessagePool) CheckReplaceMessages(ctx context.Context, replace []*type
 	return mp.checkMessages(ctx, msgs, true, nil)
 }
 
-// flexibleNonces should be either nil or of len(msgs), it signifies that message at given index
+// checkMessages should be either nil or of len(msgs), it signifies that message at given index
 // has non-determied nonce at this point
 func (mp *MessagePool) checkMessages(ctx context.Context, msgs []*types.Message, interned bool, flexibleNonces []bool) (result [][]api.MessageCheckStatus, err error) {
 	if mp.api.IsLite() {