diff --git a/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt b/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
index 691e741303..12197b1074 100644
--- a/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ This creates a form that behaves identically to ``ArticleForm``, except there's
 some extra validation and cleaning for the ``pub_date`` field.
 
 You can also subclass the parent's ``Meta`` inner class if you want to change
-the ``Meta.fields`` or ``Meta.excludes`` lists::
+the ``Meta.fields`` or ``Meta.exclude`` lists::
 
     >>> class RestrictedArticleForm(EnhancedArticleForm):
     ...     class Meta(ArticleForm.Meta):