diff --git a/man7/inotify.7 b/man7/inotify.7
index 1e2cd2798..9672f1353 100644
--- a/man7/inotify.7
+++ b/man7/inotify.7
@@ -691,7 +691,7 @@ events as being unrelated.
 If watch descriptors are destroyed and re-created as a result,
 then those watch descriptors will be inconsistent with
 the watch descriptors in any pending events.
-(Rebuilding the cache and re-creating the inotify file descriptor may
+(Re-creating the inotify file descriptor and rebuilding the cache may
 be useful to deal with this scenario.)
 
 Applications should also allow for the possibility that the