diff --git a/man7/namespaces.7 b/man7/namespaces.7
index 781872f3c..0bcb45c2d 100644
--- a/man7/namespaces.7
+++ b/man7/namespaces.7
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ unrelated to namespaces.)
 Various
 .BR ioctl (2)
 operations can be used to discover information about namespaces.
-These operations are descibed in
+These operations are described in
 .BR ioctl_ns (2).
 .PP
 Creation of new namespaces using