diff --git a/website/docs/configuration/provider-requirements.html.md b/website/docs/configuration/provider-requirements.html.md
index b27d85c2f4..c5e1c1cedd 100644
--- a/website/docs/configuration/provider-requirements.html.md
+++ b/website/docs/configuration/provider-requirements.html.md
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ provider in a module, so you'll need to use a non-preferred name for at least
 one of them.
 
 When this happens, we recommend combining each provider's namespace with
-its type name to produce compound local names:
+its type name to produce compound local names with a dash:
 
 ```hcl
 terraform {
@@ -223,11 +223,11 @@ terraform {
     # In the rare situation of using two providers that
     # have the same type name -- "http" in this example --
     # use a compound local name to distinguish them.
-    hashicorp_http = {
+    hashicorp-http = {
       source  = "hashicorp/http"
       version = "~> 2.0"
     }
-    mycorp_http = {
+    mycorp-http = {
       source  = "mycorp/http"
       version = "~> 1.0"
     }