diff --git a/Doc/library/threading.rst b/Doc/library/threading.rst
--- a/Doc/library/threading.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/threading.rst
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
    Due to the :term:`Global Interpreter Lock`, in CPython only one thread
    can execute Python code at once (even though certain performance-oriented
    libraries might overcome this limitation).
-   If you want your application to make better of use of the computational
+   If you want your application to make better use of the computational
    resources of multi-core machines, you are advised to use
    :mod:`multiprocessing`. However, threading is still an appropriate model
    if you want to run multiple I/O-bound tasks simultaneously.