diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
index 02d85c8786c7637e1a4e134f7d4ea632266d68ff..9276dc73160c4243c3e56c5199bb2b1e12ee57fa 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
@@ -2391,7 +2391,7 @@ extended period of time.
 Setting this option will cause the backfill scheduler to continue processing
 pending jobs from its original job list after releasing locks even if job
 or node state changes.
-This can result in lower priority jobs from being backfill scheduled instead
+This can result in lower priority jobs being backfill scheduled instead
 of newly arrived higher priority jobs, but will permit more queued jobs to be
 considered for backfill scheduling.
 .TP