diff --git a/man3/CPU_SET.3 b/man3/CPU_SET.3
index 35d6581cd..638d197bb 100644
--- a/man3/CPU_SET.3
+++ b/man3/CPU_SET.3
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ Since CPU sets are bitsets allocated in units of long words,
 the actual number of CPUs in a dynamically
 allocated CPU set will be rounded up to the next multiple of
 .IR "sizeof(unsigned long)" .
-An application should consider the contents on these extra bits
+An application should consider the contents of these extra bits
 to be undefined.
 
 Note that the constant