diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd-sql.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd-sql.5
index 335e2130fc..59e91ca809 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd-sql.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd-sql.5
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ If we wanted to service LDAP requests with filters like
 .fi
 .LP
 (note how the telephoneNumber match is expanded in multiple wildcards
-to account for interspersed influential chars like spaces, dashes
+to account for interspersed ininfluential chars like spaces, dashes
 and so; this occurs by design because telephoneNumber is defined after 
 a specially recognized syntax).
 So, if we had information about what tables contain values for each