diff --git a/lib/libm/man/log.3 b/lib/libm/man/log.3
index e11d718614b6..a2b8c329a22d 100644
--- a/lib/libm/man/log.3
+++ b/lib/libm/man/log.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: log.3,v 1.4 2017/02/01 14:42:28 abhinav Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: log.3,v 1.5 2017/02/01 14:51:29 abhinav Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2011 Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen@iki.fi>
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ functions return the base 2 logarithm.
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 Upon successful completion, the functions return the logarithm of
 .Fa x
-as descibed above.
+as described above.
 Otherwise the following may occur:
 .Bl -enum -offset indent
 .It