diff --git a/doc/administration/database_load_balancing.md b/doc/administration/database_load_balancing.md
index 5ae31d530cf8256db243d0b33f7cd553cea3c4f0..2aa6404135fd60ca80bd18829235a2391cec060c 100644
--- a/doc/administration/database_load_balancing.md
+++ b/doc/administration/database_load_balancing.md
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ at least 1 secondary in [hot standby][hot-standby] mode.
 Load balancing also requires that the configured hosts **always** point to the
 primary, even after a database failover. Furthermore, the additional hosts to
 balance load among must **always** point to secondary databases. This means that
-you should put a load balance in front of every database, and have GitLab connect
+you should put a load balancer in front of every database, and have GitLab connect
 to those load balancers.
 
 For example, say you have a primary (`db1.gitlab.com`) and two secondaries,