diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
index 0f9cb684c684f8..95b0f53a83e604 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ that a single backslash followed by a newline is interpreted as those two
 characters as part of the literal, *not* as a line continuation.
 
 
-.. _string-catenation:
+.. _string-concatenation:
 
 String literal concatenation
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