diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index 736d8bf887..bb541b7d6f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ will want to ensure that threading is disabled for `git send-email`.
 
 --reroll-count=<n>::
 	Mark the series as the <n>-th iteration of the topic. The
-	output filenames have `v<n>` pretended to them, and the
+	output filenames have `v<n>` prepended to them, and the
 	subject prefix ("PATCH" by default, but configurable via the
 	`--subject-prefix` option) has ` v<n>` appended to it.  E.g.
 	`--reroll-count=4` may produce `v4-0001-add-makefile.patch`