diff --git a/man7/sched.7 b/man7/sched.7
index d53983ad7..e1b62cc27 100644
--- a/man7/sched.7
+++ b/man7/sched.7
@@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ The situation on an SMP system is more complex,
 but the general effect is the same:
 the scheduler distributes CPU cycles across task groups such that
 an autogroup that contains a large number of CPU-bound processes
-does not end up hoffing CPU cycles at the expense of the other
+does not end up hogging CPU cycles at the expense of the other
 jobs on the system.
 
 A process's autogroup (task group) membership can be viewed via the file