diff --git a/Lib/imp.py b/Lib/imp.py
index fcfd3d36ee1..f947c3d47de 100644
--- a/Lib/imp.py
+++ b/Lib/imp.py
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ def find_module(name, path=None):
                 continue
             break  # Break out of outer loop when breaking out of inner loop.
     else:
-        raise ImportError('No module name {!r}'.format(name), name=name)
+        raise ImportError(_bootstrap._ERR_MSG.format(name), name=name)
 
     encoding = None
     if mode == 'U':
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6d896c247ce..727414ff825 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #15256: Grammatical mistake in exception raised by imp.find_module().
+
 - Issue #5931: wsgiref environ variable SERVER_SOFTWARE will specify an
   implementation specific term like Cpython, Jython instead of generic "Python"