diff --git a/docs/source/notebook/nbformat.rst b/docs/source/notebook/nbformat.rst
index c6dcb04e4..f10a35ac0 100644
--- a/docs/source/notebook/nbformat.rst
+++ b/docs/source/notebook/nbformat.rst
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ The Jupyter Notebook Format
 Introduction
 ============
 
-Jupyter (née IPython) notebook files are simple JSON documents,
+Jupyter (né IPython) notebook files are simple JSON documents,
 containing text, source code, rich media output, and metadata.
 each segment of the document is stored in a cell.