diff --git a/doc/src/pair_snap.rst b/doc/src/pair_snap.rst
index b6ba82f64b..ecfbf773c4 100644
--- a/doc/src/pair_snap.rst
+++ b/doc/src/pair_snap.rst
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ The *parallelthresh* keyword controls
 a crossover threshold for performing extra parallelism. For
 small systems, exposing additional parallism can be beneficial when
 there is not enough work to fully saturate the GPU threads otherwise.
-However, the extra parallelism also leads to more thread divergence
+However, the extra parallelism also leads to more divergence
 and can hurt performance when the system is already large enough to
 saturate the GPU threads.