diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/pause.3 b/lib/libc/gen/pause.3
index 6b17ae10777..85257071ce2 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/pause.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/pause.3
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ A
 system call first appeared in the Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX)
 and was then ported to
 .At v7 .
-It was reimplemeted as a wrapper around the
+It was reimplemented as a wrapper around the
 .Fn sigpause
 and
 .Fn sigblock