diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
index 5dd019d7f7..cab7b970ac 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
@@ -1746,7 +1746,7 @@ lo_import 152801
You can specify an optional second argument, if it is provided it
may be either on or off
which will enable or disable display of a locale-aware character
- to seperate groups of digits to the left of the decimal marker. If
+ to separate groups of digits to the left of the decimal marker. If
the second argument is not provided then we will toggle between
on and off.