diff --git a/man7/sched.7 b/man7/sched.7
index a72fcaa9b..99ad8065f 100644
--- a/man7/sched.7
+++ b/man7/sched.7
@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ The other contains a single CPU-bound process: a video player.
 The effect of autogrouping is that the two groups will
 each receive half of the CPU cycles.
 That is, the video player will receive 50% of the CPU cycles,
-rather just 9% of the cycles,
+rather than just 9% of the cycles,
 which would likely lead to degraded video playback.
 Or to put things another way:
 an autogroup that contains a large number of CPU-bound processes