diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index f4f0c80e3d..394bd77988 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ It is also possible to specify the user name and password as part of the
 host, for some protocols, when connecting to servers that require
 authentication.
 
-For exammple the following types of authentication support this:
+For example the following types of authentication support this:
 
 http://user:password@www.domain.com
 ftp://user:password@ftp.domain.com