diff --git a/man2/kill.2 b/man2/kill.2
index 472ebfe37..b77f4d30d 100644
--- a/man2/kill.2
+++ b/man2/kill.2
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ The process does not have permission to send the signal
 to any of the target processes.
 .TP
 .B ESRCH
-The pid or process group does not exist.
+The process or process group does not exist.
 Note that an existing process might be a zombie,
 a process which already committed termination, but
 has not yet been