diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
index 84a242d29a059a..af39724170941d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -1828,7 +1828,7 @@ FileType objects
       Namespace(infile=<_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdin>' encoding='UTF-8'>)
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.4
-      Added the *encodings* and *errors* parameters.
+      Added the *encoding* and *errors* parameters.
 
 
 Argument groups