diff --git a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-multi.3 b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-multi.3
index e5a589202..0717be779 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-multi.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-multi.3
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ and when to ask libcurl to get/send data.
 complicated for the application.
 
 3. Enable the application to wait for action on its own file descriptors and
-curl's file descriptors simultaneous easily.
+curl's file descriptors simultaneously.
 
 4. Enable event-based handling and scaling transfers up to and beyond
 thousands of parallel connections.