diff --git a/docs/reference/mapping/params/doc-values.asciidoc b/docs/reference/mapping/params/doc-values.asciidoc
index ea8dfd08bb7..a0108b899b9 100644
--- a/docs/reference/mapping/params/doc-values.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/mapping/params/doc-values.asciidoc
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ of documents that contain the term.
 Sorting, aggregations, and access to field values in scripts requires a
 different data access pattern.  Instead of lookup up the term and finding
 documents, we need to be able to look up the document and find the terms that
-is has in a field.
+it has in a field.
 
 Doc values are the on-disk data structure, built at document index time, which
 makes this data access pattern possible. They store the same values as the