diff --git a/man/xcontrol.7.adoc b/man/xcontrol.7.adoc
index 229840948..73ba08cd2 100644
--- a/man/xcontrol.7.adoc
+++ b/man/xcontrol.7.adoc
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ $scc
 *guess*=gasteiger|goedecker|sad::
     different possible guess charges for GFN2-xTB SCC calculation
 
-*maxiteration*='int'::
+*maxiterations*='int'::
     adjusts the number of SCC iterations in the first/last SCC calculation
 
 $split