diff --git a/docs/source/common/optimization.rst b/docs/source/common/optimization.rst
index e7e9e12605..a25f1ea2da 100644
--- a/docs/source/common/optimization.rst
+++ b/docs/source/common/optimization.rst
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ Under the hood, Lightning will call each optimizer sequentially:
             lr_scheduler.step()
 
 
-Step Optimizeres at Arbitrary Intervals
+Step Optimizers at Arbitrary Intervals
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 To do more interesting things with your optimizers such as learning rate warm-up or odd scheduling,