diff --git a/man2/mprotect.2 b/man2/mprotect.2
index a65d80f3e..f96b41560 100644
--- a/man2/mprotect.2
+++ b/man2/mprotect.2
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ is used with
 .IR prot
 set to
 .B PROT_EXEC
-a pkey is may be allocated and set on the memory implicitly
+a pkey may be allocated and set on the memory implicitly
 by the kernel, but only when the pkey was 0 previously.
 .PP
 On systems that do not support protection keys in hardware,