diff --git a/doc/man/s3fs.1 b/doc/man/s3fs.1
index 7fd840c..9d41c82 100644
--- a/doc/man/s3fs.1
+++ b/doc/man/s3fs.1
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ sets signing AWS requests by sing Signature Version 2.
 sets umask for the mount point directory.
 If allow_other option is not set, s3fs allows access to the mount point only to the owner.
 In the opposite case s3fs allows access to all users as the default.
-But if you set the allow_other with this option, you can controll the permission permissions of the mount point by this option like umask.
+But if you set the allow_other with this option, you can control the permission permissions of the mount point by this option like umask.
 .TP
 \fB\-o\fR nomultipart - disable multipart uploads
 .TP