diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/workflows.rst b/lib/spack/docs/workflows.rst
index 314f57c8b5f5fe51694582fff6155916721c779c..3ca2353dc14c79d9a9f9adf817d9444bd74ad7e0 100644
--- a/lib/spack/docs/workflows.rst
+++ b/lib/spack/docs/workflows.rst
@@ -967,7 +967,7 @@ Distribute Your Software
 
 Once you've released your software, other people will want to build
 it; and you will need to tell them how.  In the past, that has meant a
-few paragraphs of pros explaining which dependencies to install.  But
+few paragraphs of prose explaining which dependencies to install.  But
 now you use Spack, and those instructions are written in executable
 Python code.  But your software has many dependencies, and you know
 Spack is the best way to install it: