diff --git a/man7/signal.7 b/man7/signal.7
index b20f9fbe5..0804d68f0 100644
--- a/man7/signal.7
+++ b/man7/signal.7
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ and
 .BR SIGFPE ,
 generated as a
 consequence of executing a specific machine-language instruction
-are thread directed, as are signals targeted at a specific thread using
+are thread-directed, as are signals targeted at a specific thread using
 .BR pthread_kill (3)).
 A process-directed signal may be delivered to any one of the
 threads that does not currently have the signal blocked.