diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT.3
index e841f74f66..1c60f5b26c 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT.3
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ DNS entries have a "TTL" property but libcurl does not use that. This DNS
 cache timeout is entirely speculative that a name will resolve to the same
 address for a certain small amount of time into the future.
 
-Since version 8.1.0, libcurl prunes entries from the DNS cache if it excceeds
+Since version 8.1.0, libcurl prunes entries from the DNS cache if it exceeds
 30,000 entries no matter which timeout value is used.
 .SH DEFAULT
 60