diff --git a/docs/ref/utils.txt b/docs/ref/utils.txt
index 3f72672622..63f98dc2c3 100644
--- a/docs/ref/utils.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/utils.txt
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ escaping HTML.
     is anything contained within ``<>``.
 
     Absolutely NO guarantee is provided about the resulting string being
-    HTML safe. So NEVER mark safe the result of a ``strip_tag`` call without
+    HTML safe. So NEVER mark safe the result of a ``strip_tags`` call without
     escaping it first, for example with :func:`~django.utils.html.escape`.
 
     For example::