diff --git a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/notebookmanager.py b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/notebookmanager.py
index 9acf0cd8a..a4f859b22 100644
--- a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/notebookmanager.py
+++ b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/notebookmanager.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class NotebookManager(LoggingConfigurable):
save_script = Bool(False, config=True,
help="""Automatically create a Python script when saving the notebook.
- For easier use of import, %run and %loadpy across notebooks, a
+ For easier use of import, %run and %load across notebooks, a
.py script will be created next to any
.ipynb on each save. This can also be set with the
short `--script` flag.