diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
index 4865d0bb4b..2069105f11 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
@@ -5832,7 +5832,7 @@ Specify the Name of the statistics file for a special audio-only
 first pass encoding mode.
 .br
 .I NOTE:
-Using this mode will most likely give you A-V sync.
+Using this mode will most likely give you A-V desync.
 Do not use it.
 It is kept for backwards compatibility only and will possibly
 be removed in a future version.