diff --git a/man3/getaddrinfo.3 b/man3/getaddrinfo.3
index 643868211..3bb24b8e1 100644
--- a/man3/getaddrinfo.3
+++ b/man3/getaddrinfo.3
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ IDNA_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES (check output to make sure it is a STD3
 conforming host name) 
 flags respectively to be used in the IDNA handling.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
-.\" FIXME glibc defines the following additonal errors, some which
+.\" FIXME glibc defines the following additional errors, some which
 .\" can probably be returned by getaddrinfo(); they need to 
 .\" be documented.
 .\" # ifdef __USE_GNU