diff --git a/share/man/man9/sleepqueue.9 b/share/man/man9/sleepqueue.9
index 745d45975b79..9f30f25e86da 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/sleepqueue.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/sleepqueue.9
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ The sleep queues and the hash array are protected internally by the
 mutex.
 .Pp
 .Fn unsleep
-simply removes the process
-.Fa p
+simply removes the thread
+.Fa td
 from its sleep queue.
 .Pp
 .Fn sleepinit