diff --git a/man/dnsmasq.8 b/man/dnsmasq.8
index 250db1c..e7c7947 100644
--- a/man/dnsmasq.8
+++ b/man/dnsmasq.8
@@ -1429,7 +1429,7 @@ forces "simple and safe" behaviour to avoid problems in such a case.
 .B --dhcp-relay=<local address>[,<server address>[#<server port>]][,<interface]
 Configure dnsmasq to do DHCP relay. The local address is an address
 allocated to an interface on the host running dnsmasq. All DHCP
-requests arriving on that interface will we relayed to a remote DHCP
+requests arriving on that interface will be relayed to a remote DHCP
 server at the server address. It is possible to relay from a single local
 address to multiple remote servers by using multiple \fB--dhcp-relay\fP
 configs with the same local address and different server