diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/hashers.py b/django/contrib/auth/hashers.py
index f561897d9bb4..8cfda79da536 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/hashers.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/hashers.py
@@ -98,8 +98,7 @@ async def acheck_password(password, encoded, setter=None, preferred="default"):
 
 
 def make_password(password, salt=None, hasher="default"):
-    """
-    Turn a plain-text password into a hash for database storage
+    """Turn a plaintext password into a hash for database storage.
 
     Same as encode() but generate a new random salt. If password is None then
     return a concatenation of UNUSABLE_PASSWORD_PREFIX and a random string,
diff --git a/docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt b/docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt
index 37627ee3b676..fa5b0094a92e 100644
--- a/docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt
@@ -488,10 +488,10 @@ from the ``User`` model.
 
     *Asynchronous version*: ``acheck_password()``
 
-    If you'd like to manually authenticate a user by comparing a plain-text
+    If you'd like to manually authenticate a user by comparing a plaintext
     password to the hashed password in the database, use the convenience
     function :func:`check_password`. It takes two mandatory arguments: the
-    plain-text password to check, and the full value of a user's ``password``
+    plaintext password to check, and the full value of a user's ``password``
     field in the database to check against. It returns ``True`` if they match,
     ``False`` otherwise. Optionally, you can pass a callable ``setter`` that
     takes the password and will be called when you need to regenerate it. You
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ from the ``User`` model.
 .. function:: make_password(password, salt=None, hasher='default')
 
     Creates a hashed password in the format used by this application. It takes
-    one mandatory argument: the password in plain-text (string or bytes).
+    one mandatory argument: the plaintext password (string or bytes).
     Optionally, you can provide a salt and a hashing algorithm to use, if you
     don't want to use the defaults (first entry of ``PASSWORD_HASHERS``
     setting). See :ref:`auth-included-hashers` for the algorithm name of each