diff --git a/src/osx/core/cfstring.cpp b/src/osx/core/cfstring.cpp
index 27471b24e5..78d7a289bf 100644
--- a/src/osx/core/cfstring.cpp
+++ b/src/osx/core/cfstring.cpp
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ wxCFStringRef::wxCFStringRef( const wxString &st , wxFontEncoding WXUNUSED_IN_UN
 #else
     #error "unsupported Unicode representation"
 #endif
-        CFStringref ref = CFStringCreateWithBytes( kCFAllocatorDefault,
+        CFStringRef ref = CFStringCreateWithBytes( kCFAllocatorDefault,
             (const UInt8*)data, size, cfencoding, false /* no BOM */ );
         if (ref)
         {