diff --git a/tabbed.1 b/tabbed.1
index a6a6534..d3ef06a 100644
--- a/tabbed.1
+++ b/tabbed.1
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ tabbed \- generic tabbed interface
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .B tabbed
 is a simple tabbed container for applications which support XEmbed. Tabbed
-will then run the provides command with the xid of tabbed as appended
+will then run the provided command with the xid of tabbed as appended
 argument. (See EXAMPLES.) The automatic spawning of the command can be
 disabled by providing the -s parameter. If no command is provided
 tabbed will just print its xid and run no command.