diff --git a/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 b/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8
index 3c6a7331827..981233f6998 100644
--- a/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8
+++ b/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ downwards to correspond to head and cylinder boundaries):
 Example: to set slices 1, 2 and 4 to
 .Fx
 slices, the first being 2 Gigabytes, the second being 10 Gigabytes and the
-forth being the remainder of the disk (again, numbers will be rounded
+fourth being the remainder of the disk (again, numbers will be rounded
 appropriately):
 .Pp
 .Dl "p       1       165     63      2G"