diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/reference_appendices/special_variables.rst b/docs/docsite/rst/reference_appendices/special_variables.rst
index 4716f829553..328f07a34db 100644
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/reference_appendices/special_variables.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/reference_appendices/special_variables.rst
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ ansible_search_path
     Current search path for action plugins and lookups, i.e where we search for relative paths when you do ``template: src=myfile``
 
 ansible_skip_tags
-    Contents of the ``--skip_tags`` CLI option, which specifies which tags will be skipped for the current run.
+    Contents of the ``--skip-tags`` CLI option, which specifies which tags will be skipped for the current run.
 
 ansible_verbosity
     Current verbosity setting for Ansible