diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/playbooks_prompts.rst b/docs/docsite/rst/playbooks_prompts.rst
index 3070342eb1..e1b787d565 100644
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/playbooks_prompts.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/playbooks_prompts.rst
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ some other options, but otherwise works equivalently::
        prompt: "Product release version"
        private: no
 
-If `Passlib <https://passlib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`_ is installed, vars_prompt can also crypt the
+If `Passlib <https://passlib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`_ is installed, vars_prompt can also encrypt the
 entered value so you can use it, for instance, with the user module to define a password::
 
    vars_prompt: