diff --git a/lib/libgeom/libgeom.3 b/lib/libgeom/libgeom.3
index bb67105b83fa..0193a9d72013 100644
--- a/lib/libgeom/libgeom.3
+++ b/lib/libgeom/libgeom.3
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ interacting with the GEOM subsystem in the kernel.
 .Ss "Statistics Functions"
 GEOM collects statistics data for all consumers and providers, but does
 not perform any normalization or presentation on the raw data, this is
-left as an excercize for user-land presentation utilities.
+left as an exercise for user-land presentation utilities.
 .Pp
 The
 .Fn geom_stats_open