diff --git a/Doc/reference/import.rst b/Doc/reference/import.rst
index 4dbd9d88c30..9475b8d55c2 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/import.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/import.rst
@@ -890,7 +890,7 @@ import statements within that module.
 
 To selectively prevent import of some modules from a hook early on the
 meta path (rather than disabling the standard import system entirely),
-it is sufficient to raise :exc:`ModuleNoFoundError` directly from
+it is sufficient to raise :exc:`ModuleNotFoundError` directly from
 :meth:`~importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder.find_spec` instead of returning
 ``None``. The latter indicates that the meta path search should continue,
 while raising an exception terminates it immediately.