diff --git a/source/core/index-hashed.txt b/source/core/index-hashed.txt
index 35ad8c251cd..6e8c52ad5f5 100644
--- a/source/core/index-hashed.txt
+++ b/source/core/index-hashed.txt
@@ -15,14 +15,14 @@ Hashed Indexes
    :class: singlecol
 
 Hashed indexes maintain entries with hashes of the values of the
-indexed field. 
+indexed field.
 
 Hashed indexes support :doc:`sharding </sharding>`
 using hashed shard keys. :ref:`Hashed based sharding
 <sharding-hashed-sharding>` uses a hashed index of a field as the shard
 key to partition data across your sharded cluster.
 
-Using a hashed shard key to shard a collection results in a more random
+Using a hashed shard key to shard a collection results in a more even
 distribution of data. See :ref:`sharding-hashed-sharding` for more
 details.