diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/tmpnam.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/tmpnam.3
index 19e7ba82193..7937a0ab6d0 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdio/tmpnam.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdio/tmpnam.3
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ The
 and
 .Fn tempnam
 functions are susceptible to a race condition
-occuring between the selection of the file name
+occurring between the selection of the file name
 and the creation of the file,
 which allows malicious users
 to potentially overwrite arbitrary files in the system,