diff --git a/library/cloud/ec2_eip b/library/cloud/ec2_eip
index 9074a0c4b8..db7f9447cd 100644
--- a/library/cloud/ec2_eip
+++ b/library/cloud/ec2_eip
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 DOCUMENTATION = '''
 ---
 module: ec2_eip
-short_decription: associate an EC2 elastic IP with an instance.
+short_description: associate an EC2 elastic IP with an instance.
 description:
     - This module associates AWS EC2 elastic IP addresses with instances
 version_added: 1.4