diff --git a/doc/api/dgram.md b/doc/api/dgram.md
index 01ec28e63ca4d9..bb492b56c2728a 100644
--- a/doc/api/dgram.md
+++ b/doc/api/dgram.md
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ Note that specifying both a `'listening'` event listener and passing a
 useful.
 
 The `options` object may contain an additional `exclusive` property that is
-use when using `dgram.Socket` objects with the [`cluster`] module. When
+used when using `dgram.Socket` objects with the [`cluster`] module. When
 `exclusive` is set to `false` (the default), cluster workers will use the same
 underlying socket handle allowing connection handling duties to be shared.
 When `exclusive` is `true`, however, the handle is not shared and attempted