diff --git a/usr.sbin/crunch/crunchgen/crunchgen.1 b/usr.sbin/crunch/crunchgen/crunchgen.1
index 078c44f0f976..fb3f6be713f1 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/crunch/crunchgen/crunchgen.1
+++ b/usr.sbin/crunch/crunchgen/crunchgen.1
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ is run, the crunched binary can be built by running ``make -f
 be built.  A ``objs'' target, included in the output makefile, will
 run make in each component program's source dir to build the object
 files for the user.  This is not done automatically since in release
-engineering circumstances it is generally not desireable to be
+engineering circumstances it is generally not desirable to be
 modifying objects in other directories.
 
 .Pp