diff --git a/docs/proposals/WholeModuleOptimization.rst b/docs/proposals/WholeModuleOptimization.rst
index f391272a216c6..8997d88553331 100644
--- a/docs/proposals/WholeModuleOptimization.rst
+++ b/docs/proposals/WholeModuleOptimization.rst
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ have them ask for the results of an analyses for the entire SCC and
 then iterate over all functions in the SCC?**
 
 In some cases we have transforms that generate new work in a top-down
-fashion, for example the devirtualizer as well as any pass that
+fashion, for example the de-virtualizer as well as any pass that
 clones. These can be handled by allowing function passes to push new
 work at the top of the stack of work items, and then upon finishing a
 pass the pass pipeline will be restarted with those new functions at