diff --git a/docs/man/man1/ansible.1.asciidoc.in b/docs/man/man1/ansible.1.asciidoc.in
index d525eca33b..bc704692a7 100644
--- a/docs/man/man1/ansible.1.asciidoc.in
+++ b/docs/man/man1/ansible.1.asciidoc.in
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ Use this file to authenticate the connection.
 
 Run operations with su (deprecated, use become).
 
-*-R* 'SU_USER', *--se-user=*'SUDO_USER'::
+*-R* 'SU_USER', *--su-user=*'SU_USER'::
 
 Run operations with su as this user (default=root) (deprecated, use become).