diff --git a/RELEASES.md b/RELEASES.md
index 6daf7a13b6bdcd0ee7fc09ac5e5c00d125d736f5..53139877c2f92951a501dba60b494dafcd9aee02 100644
--- a/RELEASES.md
+++ b/RELEASES.md
@@ -7804,7 +7804,7 @@ Version 0.7 (2013-07-03)
       * extra: Implementation of fixed output size variations of SHA-2.
 
    * Tooling
-      * `unused_variable`  lint mode for unused variables (default: warn).
+      * `unused_variables` lint mode for unused variables (default: warn).
       * `unused_unsafe` lint mode for detecting unnecessary `unsafe` blocks
         (default: warn).
       * `unused_mut` lint mode for identifying unused `mut` qualifiers
diff --git a/src/doc/rustc/src/lints/levels.md b/src/doc/rustc/src/lints/levels.md
index 834a4a79727ab9a84346c9e88c1c7f0799042280..2944e865663139be49c16ad612c67568e4ed9699 100644
--- a/src/doc/rustc/src/lints/levels.md
+++ b/src/doc/rustc/src/lints/levels.md
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ talk about later in this section.
 ## warn
 
 The 'warn' lint level will produce a warning if you violate the lint. For example,
-this code runs afoul of the `unused_variable` lint:
+this code runs afoul of the `unused_variables` lint:
 
 ```rust
 pub fn foo() {