diff --git a/doc/chibi-scheme.1 b/doc/chibi-scheme.1
index 1664a18d..80dcd1fd 100644
--- a/doc/chibi-scheme.1
+++ b/doc/chibi-scheme.1
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ This feature is still experimental.
 .B CHIBI_MODULE_PATH
 A colon separated list of directories to search for module
 files, inserted before the system default load paths.  chibi-scheme
-searchs for modules in directories in the following order:
+searches for modules in directories in the following order:
 
 .TP
           directories included with the -I path option