diff --git a/lib/roken/rtbl.3 b/lib/roken/rtbl.3
index a8ab940c0..1a5d8b8ba 100644
--- a/lib/roken/rtbl.3
+++ b/lib/roken/rtbl.3
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ and retrieved with
 .Fa rtbl_get_flags .
 At present the only defined flag is
 .Dv RTBL_HEADER_STYLE_NONE
-which supresses printing the header.
+which suppresses printing the header.
 .Pp
 Before adding data to the table, one or more columns need to be
 created. This would normally be done with