diff --git a/man7/signal.7 b/man7/signal.7
index 0c655135a..80338ac17 100644
--- a/man7/signal.7
+++ b/man7/signal.7
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ other than a hardware exception, or because it was sent using
 .BR kill (2)
 or
 .BR sigqueue (3).
-A thread-directed signals is one that is targeted at a specific thread.
+A thread-directed signal is one that is targeted at a specific thread.
 A signal may be thread-directed because it was generated as a consequence
 of executing a specific machine-language instruction
 that triggered a hardware exception (e.g.,