diff --git a/src/test/data/script_tests.json b/src/test/data/script_tests.json
--- a/src/test/data/script_tests.json
+++ b/src/test/data/script_tests.json
@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@
 ["0x02 0x0000", "CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY DROP 1", "CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY", "UNSATISFIED_LOCKTIME", "fails because tx version < 2, not from nonminimal encoding"],
 
 ["While not really correctly DER encoded, the empty signature is allowed by"],
-["STRICTENC to provide a compact way to provide a delibrately invalid signature."],
+["STRICTENC to provide a compact way to provide a deliberately invalid signature."],
 ["0", "0x21 0x02865c40293a680cb9c020e7b1e106d8c1916d3cef99aa431a56d253e69256dac0 CHECKSIG NOT", "STRICTENC", "OK"],
 ["0 0", "1 0x21 0x02865c40293a680cb9c020e7b1e106d8c1916d3cef99aa431a56d253e69256dac0 1 CHECKMULTISIG NOT", "STRICTENC", "OK"],
 ["0", "0x02 0xBEEF CHECKSIG NOT", "STRICTENC", "PUBKEYTYPE", "Even with a null signature, the public key has to be correctly encoded."],
diff --git a/src/wallet/wallet.cpp b/src/wallet/wallet.cpp
--- a/src/wallet/wallet.cpp
+++ b/src/wallet/wallet.cpp
@@ -1555,8 +1555,8 @@
 
 bool CWallet::AddWalletFlags(uint64_t flags) {
     LOCK(cs_wallet);
-    // We should never be writing unknown onon-tolerable wallet flags
-    assert(!(((flags & KNOWN_WALLET_FLAGS) >> 32) ^ (flags >> 32)));
+    // We should never be writing unknown non-tolerable wallet flags
+    assert(((flags & KNOWN_WALLET_FLAGS) >> 32) == (flags >> 32));
     if (!WalletBatch(*database).WriteWalletFlags(flags)) {
         throw std::runtime_error(std::string(__func__) +
                                  ": writing wallet flags failed");