diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/_EXITCODES.md b/docs/cmdline-opts/_EXITCODES.md
index 333e198d7c..10084b3144 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/_EXITCODES.md
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/_EXITCODES.md
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ failed.
 FTP quote error. A quote command returned error from the server.
 ## 22
 HTTP page not retrieved. The requested URL was not found or returned another
-error with the HTTP error code being 400 or above. This return code only
+error with the HTTP error code being 400 or higher. This return code only
 appears if --fail is used.
 ## 23
 Write error. curl could not write data to a local file system or similar.
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/fail.md b/docs/cmdline-opts/fail.md
index 0c8db1367b..468e3e985c 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/fail.md
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/fail.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Example:
 # `--fail`
 
 Fail with error code 22 and with no response body output at all for HTTP
-transfers returning HTTP response codes at 400 or greater.
+transfers returning HTTP response codes at 400 or higher.
 
 In normal cases when an HTTP server fails to deliver a document, it returns a
 body of text stating so (which often also describes why and more) and a 4xx