diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 4dd4696..43477b8 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ freesurferformats Changes
 Version 0.1.15
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 - disable all unit tests that require downloaded data on CRAN
-- add Euclidian distance util functions for surface vertices, like vertexdists.to.point and closest.vert.to.point
+- add Euclidean distance util functions for surface vertices, like vertexdists.to.point and closest.vert.to.point
 - add doapply.transform.mtx function (it's just matmul with some input checks that are annoying to repeat)
 
 
diff --git a/R/surface_dist.R b/R/surface_dist.R
index 6da43dd..3a3789e 100644
--- a/R/surface_dist.R
+++ b/R/surface_dist.R
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #'
 #' @param point_coords nx3 matrix of query coords. If a vector, will be transformed \code{byrow} to such a matrix.
 #'
-#' @return named list with entries: 'vertex_id' integer vector, the index of the closest vertex, and 'dist': double vector, the Euclidian distance to that vertex.
+#' @return named list with entries: 'vertex_id' integer vector, the index of the closest vertex, and 'dist': double vector, the Euclidean distance to that vertex.
 #'
 #' @family Euclidean distance util functions
 #'