diff --git a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
index 19793fad4df..cfe4ff45606 100644
--- a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
@@ -1615,7 +1615,7 @@ Example usage::
 
     django-admin migrate --traceback
 
-.. django-admin-option:: --verbosity {0,1,2,3}, --v {0,1,2,3}
+.. django-admin-option:: --verbosity {0,1,2,3}, -v {0,1,2,3}
 
 Specifies the amount of notification and debug information that a command
 should print to the console.