diff --git a/doc/source/install-guide/overview-hostlayout.rst b/doc/source/install-guide/overview-hostlayout.rst
index 74afa41210..b07b925111 100644
--- a/doc/source/install-guide/overview-hostlayout.rst
+++ b/doc/source/install-guide/overview-hostlayout.rst
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ environment within these hosts. The OSA environment also recommends a
 process. One of the target hosts can function as the deployment host.
 
 At least one load balancer **must** be used to manage the traffic among
-the target hosts. This can be any load balance of any type (hardware, haproxy,
+the target hosts. This can be any type of load balancer (hardware, haproxy,
 etc). While OpenStack-Ansible has playbooks and roles for deploying haproxy,
 we recommend for deployers to use physical load balancers when moving to
 production.