diff --git a/man2/listen.2 b/man2/listen.2
index 07241e116..c62378149 100644
--- a/man2/listen.2
+++ b/man2/listen.2
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ If the
 .I backlog
 argument is greater than the value in
 .IR /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn ,
-then it is silently truncated to that value.
+then it is silently capped to that value.
 Since Linux 5.4, the default in this file is 4096;
 in earlier kernels, the default value is 128.
 In kernels before 2.4.25, this limit was a hard coded value,