diff --git a/Doc/library/token.rst b/Doc/library/token.rst
index 1f92b5df4302bf..c228006d4c1e1d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/token.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/token.rst
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ The token constants are:
 .. data:: NAME
 
    Token value that indicates an :ref:`identifier <identifiers>`.
-   Note that keywords are also initially tokenized an ``NAME`` tokens.
+   Note that keywords are also initially tokenized as ``NAME`` tokens.
 
 .. data:: NUMBER