diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2
index 963c339fd..c3f7dc2bb 100644
--- a/man2/fcntl.2
+++ b/man2/fcntl.2
@@ -1425,7 +1425,7 @@ Note that shrinking or growing the size of the file is
 still possible and allowed.
 .\" One or more other seals are typically used with F_SEAL_WRITE
 .\" because, given a file with the F_SEAL_WRITE seal set, then,
-.\" while it would no longer be possinle to (say) write zeros into
+.\" while it would no longer be possible to (say) write zeros into
 .\" the last 100 bytes of a file, it would still be possible
 .\" to (say) shrink the file by 100 bytes using ftruncate(), and
 .\" then increase the file size by 100 bytes, which would have