diff --git a/doc/source/administration/overcloud.rst b/doc/source/administration/overcloud.rst
index e576a810b..13080a33f 100644
--- a/doc/source/administration/overcloud.rst
+++ b/doc/source/administration/overcloud.rst
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ Deprovisioning The Cloud
    This step will power down the overcloud hosts and delete their nodes'
    instance state from the seed's ironic service. This command will print a
    list of hosts which will be deprovisioned, you must type ``yes`` to confirm.
-   To automatically confirm, pass the variable ``-e confirm_deprovision=yes``.
+   To automatically confirm, pass the arguments ``-e confirm_deprovision=yes``.
 
 To deprovision the overcloud::