diff --git a/contrib/bsnmp/snmpd/snmpmod.3 b/contrib/bsnmp/snmpd/snmpmod.3
index ca92bea84d0..974db6ccb41 100644
--- a/contrib/bsnmp/snmpd/snmpmod.3
+++ b/contrib/bsnmp/snmpd/snmpmod.3
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ struct systemg {
 .Ed
 .Ss COMMUNITIES
 The SNMP daemon implements a community table.
-On recipte of a request message
+On receipt of a request message
 the community string in that message is compared to each of the community
 strings in that table, if a match is found, the global variable
 .Va community