diff --git a/man2/getrusage.2 b/man2/getrusage.2
index 373d4dd8e..da9179942 100644
--- a/man2/getrusage.2
+++ b/man2/getrusage.2
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ On some systems,
 this field records the number of messages received over sockets.
 .TP
 .IR ru_nsignals " (unmaintained)"
-On some systems, this field records the numner of signals received.
+On some systems, this field records the number of signals received.
 .TP
 .IR ru_nvcsw " (since Linux 2.6)"
 The number of times a context switch resulted due to a process