diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/kqueue.2 b/lib/libc/sys/kqueue.2
index f878787a911..e7cde201d82 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/kqueue.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/kqueue.2
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ containing the descriptor of the kqueue, and the
 address of the kevent structure placed in the
 .Va aio_lio_opcode
 field of the AIO request.  However, this approach will not work on
-architectures with 64-bit pointers, and should be considered depreciated.
+architectures with 64-bit pointers, and should be considered deprecated.
 .It EVFILT_VNODE
 Takes a file descriptor as the identifier and the events to watch for in
 .Va fflags ,