diff --git a/share/man/man9/refcnt_init.9 b/share/man/man9/refcnt_init.9
index 96fa94e7e64..142c1e57d8d 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/refcnt_init.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/refcnt_init.9
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ is used to release an existing reference.
is used to release an existing reference and wakes up a process
that is currently waiting in
.Fn refcnt_finalize
-for all the references to released.
+for all the references to be released.
.Pp
.Fn refcnt_finalize
releases the caller's reference and sleeps until all the other
