diff --git a/man/start-stop-daemon.8 b/man/start-stop-daemon.8
index a8052328..b3405d5b 100644
--- a/man/start-stop-daemon.8
+++ b/man/start-stop-daemon.8
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ option.
 Modifies the IO scheduling priority of the daemon.
 Class can be 0 for none, 1 for real time, 2 for best effort and 3 for idle.
 Data can be from 0 to 7 inclusive.
-.It Fl N , -nice Ar level
+.It Fl N , -nicelevel Ar level
 Modifies the scheduling priority of the daemon.
 .It Fl 1 , -stdout Ar logfile
 Redirect the standard output of the process to logfile when started with