diff --git a/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 b/sbin/newfs/newfs.8
index 907a83d93199..c655fb0a1ae7 100644
--- a/sbin/newfs/newfs.8
+++ b/sbin/newfs/newfs.8
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ bad sector allocation.
 Creates a new ufs file system on
 .Pa ad3s1a .
 .Nm
-will use a block size of 16384 bytes, a fragement size of 2048 bytes
+will use a block size of 16384 bytes, a fragment size of 2048 bytes
 and the largest possible number of cylinders per group.
 These values tend to produce better performance than the defaults
 for most applications.