diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawnattr_init.3 b/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawnattr_init.3
index 19d29a6f99c..388fe5a49ce 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawnattr_init.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawnattr_init.3
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ The
 function will fail if:
 .Bl -tag -width Er
 .It Bq Er ENOMEM
-Insufficient memory exists to initialize the spawn file actions object.
+Insufficient memory exists to initialize the spawn attributes object.
 .El
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr posix_spawn 3 ,