diff --git a/usr.sbin/cxgbetool/cxgbetool.8 b/usr.sbin/cxgbetool/cxgbetool.8
index 02dc1a176eb0..d1c6f528d04e 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/cxgbetool/cxgbetool.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/cxgbetool/cxgbetool.8
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ for any kind of offload based on the hardware TOE.
 .It YES Ta Don't Care Ta Rule based offload
 .El
 .Pp
-The policy file consists of empty lines, comments (lines begining with #) and
+The policy file consists of empty lines, comments (lines beginning with #) and
 any number of rules.
 Rules are applied in the order they appear in the file and processing stops at
 the first match.