diff --git a/book-content/chapters/05-unions-literals-and-narrowing.md b/book-content/chapters/05-unions-literals-and-narrowing.md
index 1b14c2c..72faf71 100644
--- a/book-content/chapters/05-unions-literals-and-narrowing.md
+++ b/book-content/chapters/05-unions-literals-and-narrowing.md
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ In this case, if `username` is not a string, we know it's `null` and could retur
 
 ```typescript
 function validateUsername(username: string | null | undefined): boolean {
-  if (typeof name !== "string") {
+  if (typeof username !== "string") {
     return false;
   }