diff --git a/docs/source/datasets.rst b/docs/source/datasets.rst
index 8366a41180..06a9fdd3e0 100644
--- a/docs/source/datasets.rst
+++ b/docs/source/datasets.rst
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ torchtext.datasets
       - All workers (DDP workers *and* DataLoader workers) see a different part
         of the data. The datasets are already wrapped inside  `ShardingFilter
         <https://pytorch.org/data/main/generated/torchdata.datapipes.iter.ShardingFilter.html>`_
-        and you may need to call ``dp.apply_sharing(num_shards, shard_id)`` in order to shard the
+        and you may need to call ``dp.apply_sharding(num_shards, shard_id)`` in order to shard the
         data across ranks (DDP workers) and DataLoader workers. One way to do this
         is to create ``worker_init_fn`` that calls ``apply_sharding`` with appropriate
         number of shards (DDP workers * DataLoader workers) and shard id (inferred through rank