diff --git a/website/api/_top-level/_compat.jade b/website/api/_top-level/_compat.jade
index 2905bf281..c9b023647 100644
--- a/website/api/_top-level/_compat.jade
+++ b/website/api/_top-level/_compat.jade
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ p
     |  but somewhat ugly in Python. Logic that deals with Python or platform
     |  compatibility only lives in #[code spacy.compat]. To distinguish them from
     |  the builtin functions, replacement functions are suffixed with an
-    |  undersocre, e.e #[code unicode_].
+    |  underscore, e.e #[code unicode_].
 
 +aside-code("Example").
     from spacy.compat import unicode_, json_dumps