diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index a47084254..a50d9bd70 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ then call its ``load()`` method:
     import spacy
     import en_core_web_sm
 
-    nlp = en_core_web_.load()
+    nlp = en_core_web_sm.load()
     doc = nlp(u'This is a sentence.')
 
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