diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.6.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.6.0.rst
index b29cf0424a9e7..cd56f590a33bf 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.6.0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.6.0.rst
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ Indexing
 
 Missing
 ^^^^^^^
-- Bug in :meth:`Index.equals` raising ``TypeError` when :class:`Index` consists of tuples that contain ``NA`` (:issue:`48446`)
+- Bug in :meth:`Index.equals` raising ``TypeError`` when :class:`Index` consists of tuples that contain ``NA`` (:issue:`48446`)
 -
 
 MultiIndex