diff --git a/man/man8/ip-rule.8 b/man/man8/ip-rule.8
index d10b8b21..48f8222f 100644
--- a/man/man8/ip-rule.8
+++ b/man/man8/ip-rule.8
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ select the destination prefix to match.
 select the incoming device to match. If the interface is loopback,
 the rule only matches packets originating from this host. This means
 that you may create separate routing tables for forwarded and local
-packets and, hence, completely segregate them.
+packets and, hence, completely separate them.
 
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