diff --git a/packages/gatsby/src/services/initialize.ts b/packages/gatsby/src/services/initialize.ts
index 96eeff7ec14f5..2052504b92040 100644
--- a/packages/gatsby/src/services/initialize.ts
+++ b/packages/gatsby/src/services/initialize.ts
@@ -323,9 +323,9 @@ export async function initialize({
     parentSpan,
   })
   activity.start()
-  // Check if any plugins have been updated since our last run. If so
-  // we delete the cache is there's likely been changes
-  // since the previous run.
+  // Check if any plugins have been updated since our last run. If so,
+  // we delete the cache as there's likely been changes since
+  // the previous run.
   //
   // We do this by creating a hash of all the version numbers of installed
   // plugins, the site's package.json, gatsby-config.js, and gatsby-node.js.