diff --git a/developer_manual/basics/routing.rst b/developer_manual/basics/routing.rst
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--- a/developer_manual/basics/routing.rst
+++ b/developer_manual/basics/routing.rst
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ The route array contains the following parts:
 
 * **url**: The URL that is matched after */index.php/apps/myapp*
 * **name**: The controller and the method to call; *page#index* is being mapped to *PageController->index()*, *articles_api#drop_latest* would be mapped to *ArticlesApiController->dropLatest()*. The controller in the example above would be stored in :file:`lib/Controller/PageController.php`.
-* **method** (Optional, defaults to GET): The HTTP method that should be matched, (e.g. GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS, PATCH)
+* **verb** (Optional, defaults to GET): The HTTP method that should be matched, (e.g. GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS, PATCH)
 * **requirements** (Optional): lets you match and extract URLs that have slashes in them (see :ref:`matching-suburls`)
 * **postfix** (Optional): lets you define a route id postfix. Since each route name will be transformed to a route id (**page#method** -> **myapp.page.method**) and the route id can only exist once you can use the postfix option to alter the route id creation by adding a string to the route id, e.g., **'name' => 'page#method', 'postfix' => 'test'** will yield the route id **myapp.page.methodtest**. This makes it possible to add more than one route/URL for a controller method
 * **defaults** (Optional): If this setting is given, a default value will be assumed for each URL parameter which is not present. The default values are passed in as a key => value par array