diff --git a/tempsdb/varlen.pyx b/tempsdb/varlen.pyx
index 046fccce5cb8fd677785f659e26766fc585f5c81..e8efb8b744a5ebf7e0082ef753823d102efc5a17 100644
--- a/tempsdb/varlen.pyx
+++ b/tempsdb/varlen.pyx
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ cdef class VarlenEntry:
     values are routinely longer than 20-40 bytes.
 
     This behaves as a bytes object, in particular it can be sliced, iterated,
-    and it's length obtained. It also overloads __bytes__. It's also directly comparable
+    and it's length obtained. It also overrides __bytes__. It's also directly comparable
     and hashable, and boolable.
 
     This acquires a reference to the chunk it refers, and releases it upon destruction.