diff --git a/website/docs/backends/types/s3.html.md b/website/docs/backends/types/s3.html.md
index 5851d292a..f958c20e1 100644
--- a/website/docs/backends/types/s3.html.md
+++ b/website/docs/backends/types/s3.html.md
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ Your administrative AWS account will contain at least the following items:
workspace.
Provide the S3 bucket name and DynamoDB table name to Terraform within the
-S3 backend configuration using the `bucket` and `lock_table` arguments
+S3 backend configuration using the `bucket` and `dynamodb_table` arguments
respectively, and configure a suitable `workspace_key_prefix` to contain
the states of the various workspaces that will subsequently be created for
this configuration.