diff --git a/applications/utilities/preProcessing/createZeroDirectory/boundaryInfo.C b/applications/utilities/preProcessing/createZeroDirectory/boundaryInfo.C
index 6dd055b6a3..62ca3f5514 100644
--- a/applications/utilities/preProcessing/createZeroDirectory/boundaryInfo.C
+++ b/applications/utilities/preProcessing/createZeroDirectory/boundaryInfo.C
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ void Foam::boundaryInfo::setType(const label patchI, const word& condition)
         return;
     }
 
-    if (wordRe(".*[mM]apped.*", wordRe::DETECT).match(types_[patchI]))
+    if (wordRe(".*[Mm]apped.*", wordRe::REGEXP).match(types_[patchI]))
     {
         // ugly hack to avoid overriding mapped types
         return;
diff --git a/src/OpenFOAM/primitives/strings/wordRe/wordRe.H b/src/OpenFOAM/primitives/strings/wordRe/wordRe.H
index d8e7fb3eb9..c5a0a3b95e 100644
--- a/src/OpenFOAM/primitives/strings/wordRe/wordRe.H
+++ b/src/OpenFOAM/primitives/strings/wordRe/wordRe.H
@@ -95,12 +95,12 @@ public:
         //  Note that 'REGEXP' is implicit if 'NOCASE' is specified alone.
         enum compOption
         {
-            LITERAL = 0, //!< treat as a string literal
-            DETECT  = 1, //!< treat as regular expression
-            REGEXP  = 2, //!< detect if the string contains meta-characters
-            NOCASE  = 4, //!< ignore case in regular expression
-            DETECT_NOCASE = DETECT | NOCASE,
-            REGEXP_NOCASE = REGEXP | NOCASE
+            LITERAL = 0, //!< Treat as a string literal
+            DETECT  = 1, //!< Detect if the string contains meta-characters
+            REGEXP  = 2, //!< Treat as regular expression
+            NOCASE  = 4, //!< Ignore case in regular expression
+            DETECT_NOCASE = DETECT | NOCASE,  //!< Combined DETECT and NOCASE
+            REGEXP_NOCASE = REGEXP | NOCASE   //!< Combined REGEXP and NOCASE
         };