diff --git a/docs/howto/deployment/wsgi/gunicorn.txt b/docs/howto/deployment/wsgi/gunicorn.txt
index 0e50ac66b3..c5c5ba9e22 100644
--- a/docs/howto/deployment/wsgi/gunicorn.txt
+++ b/docs/howto/deployment/wsgi/gunicorn.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Running Django in Gunicorn as a generic WSGI application
 
 When Gunicorn is installed, a ``gunicorn`` command is available which starts
 the Gunicorn server process. At its simplest, gunicorn just needs to be called
-with the location of a file containing a WSGI application object named
+with the location of a module containing a WSGI application object named
 `application`. So for a typical Django project, invoking gunicorn would look
 like::