diff --git a/sbin/swapon/swapon.8 b/sbin/swapon/swapon.8
index e4375871f761..e6251423237b 100644
--- a/sbin/swapon/swapon.8
+++ b/sbin/swapon/swapon.8
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ The
 .Nm swapon , swapoff
 and
 .Nm swapctl
-utilties are used to control swap devices in the system.
+utilities are used to control swap devices in the system.
 At boot time all swap entries in
 .Pa /etc/fstab
 are added automatically when the system goes multi-user.