diff --git a/docs/topics/creating_pages.rst b/docs/topics/creating_pages.rst
index b5d2bd4339..8d3c885940 100644
--- a/docs/topics/creating_pages.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/creating_pages.rst
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Make your model names more friendly to users of Wagtail using Django's internal
         ...
 
         class Meta:
-            verbose_name = "Homepage"
+            verbose_name = "homepage"
 
 When users are given a choice of pages to create, the list of page types is generated by splitting your model names on each of their capital letters. Thus a ``HomePage`` model would be named "Home Page" which is a little clumsy. ``verbose_name`` as in the example above, would change this to read "Homepage" which is slightly more conventional.