diff --git a/lib/libcurses/curses_chgat.3 b/lib/libcurses/curses_chgat.3
index 2143286e711a..db726efc11e2 100644
--- a/lib/libcurses/curses_chgat.3
+++ b/lib/libcurses/curses_chgat.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: curses_chgat.3,v 1.4 2009/07/12 23:14:06 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: curses_chgat.3,v 1.5 2011/02/10 08:54:12 blymn Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ and the color pair to
 .Fa color .
 If
 .Fa n
-is negative or larger than the reminder of the line, it gets truncated.
+is negative or larger than the remainder of the line, it gets truncated.
 .Pp
 The
 .Fn wchgat