diff --git a/exercises/hamming/metadata.toml b/exercises/hamming/metadata.toml
index 50a666621..320d71cdd 100644
--- a/exercises/hamming/metadata.toml
+++ b/exercises/hamming/metadata.toml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 title = "Hamming"
-blurb = "Calculate the Hamming difference between two DNA strands."
+blurb = "Calculate the Hamming distance between two DNA strands."
 source = "The Calculating Point Mutations problem at Rosalind"
 source_url = "https://rosalind.info/problems/hamm/"