diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5
index 3ef19f4cdd..ef6e5d30f7 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5
@@ -1524,7 +1524,7 @@ in order to work over all of the glued databases. E.g.
 .B [retry=[<retry interval> <# of retries>]+]
 .B [searchbase=<base DN>]
 .B [filter=<filter str>]
-.B [scope=sub|one|base]
+.B [scope=sub|one|base|subord]
 .B [attrs=<attr list>]
 .B [attrsonly]
 .B [sizelimit=<limit>]