diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst b/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst
--- a/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
 found there, the search continues in an installation-dependent default path; on
 Unix, this is usually :file:`.:/usr/local/lib/python`.
 
-Actually, modules are searched in the list of directories given by the variable
+More precisely, modules are searched in the list of directories given by the variable
 ``sys.path`` which is initialized from the directory containing the input script
 (or the current directory), :envvar:`PYTHONPATH` and the installation- dependent
 default.  This allows Python programs that know what they're doing to modify or