diff --git a/docs/building.rst b/docs/building.rst
index 49f2851fa..a7dc6b685 100644
--- a/docs/building.rst
+++ b/docs/building.rst
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ Build features:
 |                          |   protocol.                                        |
 |                          | * ``off`` - disable bittorrent extensions.         |
 +--------------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
-| ``pic``                  | * ``off`` - default. Build without specifying      |
+| ``fpic``                 | * ``off`` - default. Build without specifying      |
 |                          |   ``-fPIC``.                                       |
 |                          | * ``on`` - Force build with ``-fPIC`` (useful for  |
 |                          |   building a static library to be linked into a    |
diff --git a/docs/hunspell/libtorrent.dic b/docs/hunspell/libtorrent.dic
index ed820ba22..bf39faf70 100644
--- a/docs/hunspell/libtorrent.dic
+++ b/docs/hunspell/libtorrent.dic
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ pyd
 cmd
 Strigeus
 ludde
-pic
+fpic
 programmatically
 unchokes
 ethernet's