diff --git a/doc/src/pg_library.rst b/doc/src/pg_library.rst
index 871ac5aaa5..9193b56214 100644
--- a/doc/src/pg_library.rst
+++ b/doc/src/pg_library.rst
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ LAMMPS Python APIs
 The LAMMPS Python module enables calling the LAMMPS C library API from
 Python by dynamically loading functions in the LAMMPS shared library through
 the `Python ctypes module <https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html>`_.
-Because of the dynamics loading, it is **required** that LAMMPS is compiled
+Because of the dynamic loading, it is **required** that LAMMPS is compiled
 in :ref:`"shared" mode <exe>`.  The Python interface is object oriented, but
 otherwise trying to be very similar to the C library API.  Three different
 Python classes to run LAMMPS are available and they build on each other.