diff --git a/man7/fifo.7 b/man7/fifo.7
index b7c4e2d17..fca359eb8 100644
--- a/man7/fifo.7
+++ b/man7/fifo.7
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ A process
 that uses both ends of the connection in order to communicate
 with itself should be very careful to avoid deadlocks.
 .SH NOTES
-For details of the samntics of I/O on FIFOs, see
+For details of the semantics of I/O on FIFOs, see
 .BR pipe (7).
 .PP
 When a process tries to write to a FIFO that is not opened