diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
index 1e35427c497..45093122eb7 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
@@ -1456,7 +1456,7 @@ Changes in the Python API
 
 * Removed ``randrange()`` functionality deprecated since Python 3.10.  Formerly,
   ``randrange(10.0)`` losslessly converted to ``randrange(10)``. Now, it raises a
-  :exc:`TypeError`. Also, the exception raised for non-integral values such as
+  :exc:`TypeError`. Also, the exception raised for non-integer values such as
   ``randrange(10.5)`` or ``randrange('10')`` has been changed from :exc:`ValueError` to
   :exc:`TypeError`.  This also prevents bugs where ``randrange(1e25)`` would silently
   select from a larger range than ``randrange(10**25)``.