diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7
index c28c9748c..b21de1d89 100644
--- a/man7/man-pages.7
+++ b/man7/man-pages.7
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ to improve the visual result of the output, it may be useful to employ the
 (don't right justify)
 and
 .I .nh
-(dont hyphenate)
+(don't hyphenate)
 directives.
 Hyphenation of individual page names can be prevented
 by preceding words with the string "\\%".