diff --git a/man/remind.1 b/man/remind.1
index 36630d91..e39a0612 100644
--- a/man/remind.1
+++ b/man/remind.1
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ it as YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY/MM/DD.  You can even supply a date and
 time on the command line as one argument: YYYY-MM-DD@HH:MM.
 .PP
 In addition, you can supply a \fIrepeat\fR parameter, which has the
-form *\fInum\fR.  This causes \fBRemind\fR to be run \fInum\fR times,
+form *\fIrep\fR.  This causes \fBRemind\fR to be run \fIrep\fR times,
 with the date incrementing on each iteration.  You may have to enclose
 the parameter in quotes to avoid shell expansion.  See the subsection
 "Repeated Execution" in the section "CALENDAR MODE" for more