diff --git a/docs/source/error_code_list2.rst b/docs/source/error_code_list2.rst
index 36cf05d4f3f8..5dfe483d2cfe 100644
--- a/docs/source/error_code_list2.rst
+++ b/docs/source/error_code_list2.rst
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ Example:
 Check that overrides of mutable attributes are safe [mutable-override]
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-`mutable-override` will enable the check for unsafe overrides of mutable attributes.
+``mutable-override`` will enable the check for unsafe overrides of mutable attributes.
 For historical reasons, and because this is a relatively common pattern in Python,
 this check is not enabled by default. The example below is unsafe, and will be
 flagged when this error code is enabled: