diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index 9dcce8770e..1a20cb9d61 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -2070,7 +2070,7 @@ This option requires that libcurl was built with a resolver backend that
 supports this operation. The c-ares backend is the only such one.
 
 (Added in 7.24.0)
-.IP CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMOUT_MS
+.IP CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS
 Pass a long telling libcurl the maximum number of milliseconds to wait for a
 server to connect back to libcurl when an active FTP connection is used. If no
 timeout is set, the internal default of 60000 will be used. (Added in 7.24.0)