diff --git a/man7/namespaces.7 b/man7/namespaces.7
index 54a977e3b..b0599e5aa 100644
--- a/man7/namespaces.7
+++ b/man7/namespaces.7
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ file, depending on the user ID mappings for the user namespaces
 of the reading processes.
 
 Each line in the file specifies a 1-to-1 mapping of a range of contiguous
-between two user namespaces.
+user IDs between two user namespaces.
 The specification in each line takes the form of
 three numbers delimited by white space.
 The first two numbers specify the starting user ID in