diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/reference_appendices/special_variables.rst b/docs/docsite/rst/reference_appendices/special_variables.rst
index 2c988b362c0..27098c1a13f 100644
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/reference_appendices/special_variables.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/reference_appendices/special_variables.rst
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ ansible_play_hosts_all
 ansible_playbook_python
     The path to the python interpreter being used by Ansible on the controller
 
-ansible_serach_path
+ansible_search_path
     Current search path for action plugins and lookups, i.e where we search for relative paths when you do ``template: src=myfile``
 
 ansible_verbosity