diff --git a/usr.sbin/gstat/gstat.8 b/usr.sbin/gstat/gstat.8
index 08a92fbc1c7..06abd1772f0 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/gstat/gstat.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/gstat/gstat.8
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ operations.
 .It Fl f Ar filter
 A regular expression that can be used to only show statistics for some
 devices.
-Only devices which name match
+Only devices with the names matching
 .Ar filter
 will be displayed.
 The format of the regular expression is described in