diff --git a/man7/cgroups.7 b/man7/cgroups.7
index 1d7edd6e5..bf32aa958 100644
--- a/man7/cgroups.7
+++ b/man7/cgroups.7
@@ -1286,7 +1286,7 @@ becomes
 .IP *
 All of the descendant cgroups of
 .I x
-that are were not already of type
+that were not already of type
 .IR threaded
 are converted to type
 .IR "domain invalid" .