diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/freebsd_service.yml b/changelogs/fragments/freebsd_service.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dcf5f8cc005
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/freebsd_service.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+  - service - fix order of CLI arguments on FreeBSD (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81377).
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/service.py b/lib/ansible/modules/service.py
index 65eba3b768c..ec0cb87fd55 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/service.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/service.py
@@ -1012,7 +1012,7 @@ class FreeBsdService(Service):
         self.sysrc_cmd = self.module.get_bin_path('sysrc')
 
     def get_service_status(self):
-        rc, stdout, stderr = self.execute_command("%s %s %s %s" % (self.svc_cmd, self.name, 'onestatus', self.arguments))
+        rc, stdout, stderr = self.execute_command("%s %s %s %s" % (self.svc_cmd, self.arguments, self.name, 'onestatus'))
         if self.name == "pf":
             self.running = "Enabled" in stdout
         else:
@@ -1032,7 +1032,7 @@ class FreeBsdService(Service):
             if os.path.isfile(rcfile):
                 self.rcconf_file = rcfile
 
-        rc, stdout, stderr = self.execute_command("%s %s %s %s" % (self.svc_cmd, self.name, 'rcvar', self.arguments))
+        rc, stdout, stderr = self.execute_command("%s %s %s %s" % (self.svc_cmd, self.arguments, self.name, 'rcvar'))
         try:
             rcvars = shlex.split(stdout, comments=True)
         except Exception:
@@ -1097,7 +1097,7 @@ class FreeBsdService(Service):
         if self.action == "reload":
             self.action = "onereload"
 
-        ret = self.execute_command("%s %s %s %s" % (self.svc_cmd, self.name, self.action, self.arguments))
+        ret = self.execute_command("%s %s %s %s" % (self.svc_cmd, self.arguments, self.name, self.action))
 
         if self.sleep:
             time.sleep(self.sleep)