diff --git a/website/api/token.jade b/website/api/token.jade
index 7db4f350c..9a457bcd5 100644
--- a/website/api/token.jade
+++ b/website/api/token.jade
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ p
     +tag property
     +tag-model("parse")
 
-p A sequence of all the token's syntactic descendents.
+p A sequence of all the token's syntactic descendants.
 
 +aside-code("Example").
     doc = nlp(u'Give it back! He pleaded.')
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ p The L2 norm of the token's vector representation.
     +row
         +cell #[code right_edge]
         +cell #[code Token]
-        +cell The rightmost token of this token's syntactic descendents.
+        +cell The rightmost token of this token's syntactic descendants.
 
     +row
         +cell #[code i]