diff --git a/doc/lispref/loading.texi b/doc/lispref/loading.texi
index 874200d9f2d..0972a7a123c 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/loading.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/loading.texi
@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ the corresponding list of files to load for it.  Entries to this
 mapping are added by calls to @code{register-definition-prefixes}
 which are generated by @code{loaddefs-generate}
 (@pxref{Autoload}).  Files which don't contain any definitions worth
-loading (test files, for examples), should set
+loading (test files, for example), should set
 @code{autoload-compute-prefixes} to @code{nil} as a file-local
 variable.