diff --git a/library/std/src/process.rs b/library/std/src/process.rs
index 99c3369425b06..21633268c4d82 100644
--- a/library/std/src/process.rs
+++ b/library/std/src/process.rs
@@ -1453,7 +1453,7 @@ impl ExitStatus {
     ///
     /// In Unix terms the return value is the **exit status**: the value passed to `exit`, if the
     /// process finished by calling `exit`.  Note that on Unix the exit status is truncated to 8
-    /// bits, and that values that didn't come from a program's call to `exit` may be invented the
+    /// bits, and that values that didn't come from a program's call to `exit` may be invented by the
     /// runtime system (often, for example, 255, 254, 127 or 126).
     ///
     /// On Unix, this will return `None` if the process was terminated by a signal.