diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index b798d6f9e8..f5375ed7f1 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -1246,7 +1246,7 @@ this:
   curl -o aa example.com -o bb example.net
 
 and the order of the -o options and the URLs doesn't matter, just that the
-first -o is for the fir URL and so on, so the above command line can also be
+first -o is for the first URL and so on, so the above command line can also be
 written as
 
   curl example.com example.net -o aa -o bb