diff --git a/man3/MB_LEN_MAX.3 b/man3/MB_LEN_MAX.3
index d113e7da1..462679809 100644
--- a/man3/MB_LEN_MAX.3
+++ b/man3/MB_LEN_MAX.3
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ MB_LEN_MAX \- maximum multibyte length of a character across all locales
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
 .B MB_LEN_MAX
-macro is the upper bound for the number of bytes needed to represent a single
+macro is the maximum number of bytes needed to represent a single
 wide character, in any of the supported locales.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 A constant integer greater than zero.