diff --git a/man/dnsmasq.8 b/man/dnsmasq.8
index c3bad0a..805a309 100644
--- a/man/dnsmasq.8
+++ b/man/dnsmasq.8
@@ -853,7 +853,7 @@ behaviour, so that the records are always returned in the order
 that they are received from upstream.
 .TP
 .B --no-0x20-encode
-By default, dnsmasq scambles the case of letters in DNS queries it sends upstream as a security feature.
+By default, dnsmasq scrambles the case of letters in DNS queries it sends upstream as a security feature.
 This technique can interact badly with rare broken DNS servers which don't preserve the case
 of the query in their reply. The first time a reply is returned
 which matches the query in all respects except case, a warning