diff --git a/man/man8/zpool-status.8 b/man/man8/zpool-status.8
index 7c825f69d..5c7e27549 100644
--- a/man/man8/zpool-status.8
+++ b/man/man8/zpool-status.8
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ and referenced
 .Pq logically referenced in the pool
 block counts and sizes by reference count.
 .It Fl s
-Display the number of leaf VDEV slow IOs.
+Display the number of leaf vdev slow IOs.
 This is the number of IOs that
 didn't complete in
 .Sy zio_slow_io_ms
diff --git a/man/man8/zpool.8 b/man/man8/zpool.8
index e2de528a3..059afb794 100644
--- a/man/man8/zpool.8
+++ b/man/man8/zpool.8
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ This behavior is identical to the
 command line option.
 .It Sy ZFS_VDEV_DEVID_OPT_OUT
 Older OpenZFS implementations had issues when attempting to display pool
-config VDEV names if a
+config vdev names if a
 .Sy devid
 NVP value is present in the pool's config.
 .Pp