diff --git a/dist/stat_data.py b/dist/stat_data.py
index 44df40075..b82a2e196 100644
--- a/dist/stat_data.py
+++ b/dist/stat_data.py
@@ -1011,6 +1011,7 @@ conn_dsrc_stats = [
     CacheStat('cache_eviction_blocked_checkpoint', 'checkpoint blocked page eviction'),
     CacheStat('cache_eviction_blocked_hazard', 'hazard pointer blocked page eviction'),
     CacheStat('cache_eviction_blocked_internal_page_split', 'internal page split blocked its eviction'),
+    CacheStat('cache_eviction_blocked_multi_block_reconciliation_during_checkpoint', 'multi-block reconciliation blocked whilst checkpoint is running'),
     CacheStat('cache_eviction_blocked_no_progress', 'eviction gave up due to no progress being made'),
     CacheStat('cache_eviction_blocked_no_ts_checkpoint_race_1', 'eviction gave up due to detecting a disk value without a timestamp behind the last update on the chain'),
     CacheStat('cache_eviction_blocked_no_ts_checkpoint_race_2', 'eviction gave up due to detecting a tombstone without a timestamp ahead of the selected on disk update'),
@@ -1065,7 +1066,6 @@ conn_dsrc_stats = [
     CacheStat('cache_hs_write_squash', 'history store table writes requiring squashed modifies'),
     CacheStat('cache_inmem_split', 'in-memory page splits'),
     CacheStat('cache_inmem_splittable', 'in-memory page passed criteria to be split'),
-    CacheStat('cache_eviction_blocked_multi_block_reconcilation_during_checkpoint', 'multi-block reconciliation blocked whilst checkpoint is running'),
     CacheStat('cache_pages_prefetch', 'pages requested from the cache due to pre-fetch'),
     CacheStat('cache_pages_requested', 'pages requested from the cache'),
     CacheStat('cache_read', 'pages read into cache'),
diff --git a/src/reconcile/rec_write.c b/src/reconcile/rec_write.c
index 7286a943c..91c3a6995 100644
--- a/src/reconcile/rec_write.c
+++ b/src/reconcile/rec_write.c
@@ -2057,7 +2057,7 @@ __rec_split_write(WT_SESSION_IMPL *session, WT_RECONCILE *r, WT_REC_CHUNK *chunk
      */
     if (!last_block && WT_BTREE_SYNCING(btree) && !WT_SESSION_BTREE_SYNC(session)) {
         WT_STAT_CONN_DSRC_INCR(
-          session, cache_eviction_blocked_multi_block_reconcilation_during_checkpoint);
+          session, cache_eviction_blocked_multi_block_reconciliation_during_checkpoint);
         return (__wt_set_return(session, EBUSY));
     }