diff --git a/man2/chown.2 b/man2/chown.2
index 464a19308..8cfa59f3b 100644
--- a/man2/chown.2
+++ b/man2/chown.2
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ got the newly introduced number.
 .PP
 The following program changes the ownership of the file named in
 its second command-line argument to the value specified in its
-first command-line arguemnt.
+first command-line argument.
 The new owner can be specified either as a numeric user ID,
 or as a username (which is converted to a user ID by using
 .BR getpwnam (3)