diff --git a/lib/libpmc/pmc.3 b/lib/libpmc/pmc.3
index a0475864484..a0319286714 100644
--- a/lib/libpmc/pmc.3
+++ b/lib/libpmc/pmc.3
@@ -242,13 +242,13 @@ The ability to interrupt the CPU.
 .It Li PMC_CAP_INVERT
 The ability to invert the sense of the hardware conditions being
 measured.
-.It Li PMC_CAP_READ
-The ability to read from performance counters.
+.It Li PMC_CAP_PRECISE
+The ability to perform precise sampling.
 .It Li PMC_CAP_QUALIFIER
 The hardware allows monitored to be further qualified in some
 system dependent way.
-.It Li PMC_CAP_PRECISE
-The ability to perform precise sampling.
+.It Li PMC_CAP_READ
+The ability to read from performance counters.
 .It Li PMC_CAP_SYSTEM
 The ability to restrict counting of hardware events to when the CPU is
 running privileged code.