diff --git a/usr.bin/mkimg/mkimg.1 b/usr.bin/mkimg/mkimg.1
index a073265c21b..adf0e2707e2 100644
--- a/usr.bin/mkimg/mkimg.1
+++ b/usr.bin/mkimg/mkimg.1
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ The preferred file extension is ".qcow" and ".qcow2" for QCOW and QCOW2
 This file format is a sector by sector representation of an actual disk.
 There is no extra information that describes or relates to the format itself.
 The size of the file is the size of the (virtual) disk.
-This file format is suitable for being copyied onto a disk with utilities
+This file format is suitable for being copied onto a disk with utilities
 like
 .Nm dd .
 To write a raw disk file, either omit the