diff --git a/scrapy/templates/project/module/middlewares.py.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/project/module/middlewares.py.tmpl
index 3f0239832..a0b5910e0 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/project/module/middlewares.py.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/project/module/middlewares.py.tmpl
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ class ${ProjectName}SpiderMiddleware:
 
     async def process_start(self, start):
         # Called with an async iterator over the spider start() method or the
-        # maching method of an earlier spider middleware.
+        # matching method of an earlier spider middleware.
         async for item_or_request in start:
             yield item_or_request