diff --git a/doc/api/animation_api.rst b/doc/api/animation_api.rst
index f99ea7f1d18d..14c7ebf71d7d 100644
--- a/doc/api/animation_api.rst
+++ b/doc/api/animation_api.rst
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ artist at a global scope and let Python sort things out.  For example ::
                        init_func=init, blit=True)
    plt.show()
 
-The second method is to us `functools.partial` to 'bind' artists to
+The second method is to use `functools.partial` to 'bind' artists to
 function.  A third method is to use closures to build up the required
 artists and functions.  A fourth method is to create a class.