diff --git a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/builditem/SuppressNonRuntimeConfigChangedWarningBuildItem.java b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/builditem/SuppressNonRuntimeConfigChangedWarningBuildItem.java
index ab67223aebf535..79d6049424220d 100644
--- a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/builditem/SuppressNonRuntimeConfigChangedWarningBuildItem.java
+++ b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/builditem/SuppressNonRuntimeConfigChangedWarningBuildItem.java
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  * Allows extensions to suppress the runtime warning that Quarkus emits on startup when a non-runtime configuration
  * options is different at runtime than build time.
  * An example usage of this is when a user provides some test value in {@code application.properties}
- * for a build-time only property and only provides the actual value on the command line when building Quarkus.
+ * for a build-time only property and only provides the actual value on the command line when starting Quarkus.
  * In such a case we don't want the value set at build time to be revealed at runtime as it could be sensitive.
  */
 public final class SuppressNonRuntimeConfigChangedWarningBuildItem extends MultiBuildItem {