diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2
index 840562e38..0266adc54 100644
--- a/man2/execve.2
+++ b/man2/execve.2
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ will be invoked with the following arguments:
 .PP
 where
 .I pathname
-is te absolute pathname of the file specified as the first argument of
+is the absolute pathname of the file specified as the first argument of
 .BR execve (),
 and
 .I arg...