diff --git a/src/components/views/right_panel/UserInfo.tsx b/src/components/views/right_panel/UserInfo.tsx
index 4446ee1415a..f1807985ae5 100644
--- a/src/components/views/right_panel/UserInfo.tsx
+++ b/src/components/views/right_panel/UserInfo.tsx
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ const UserOptionsSection: React.FC<{
     if (!isMe) {
         directMessageButton = (
             <AccessibleButton onClick={() => { openDMForUser(cli, member.userId); }} className="mx_UserInfo_field">
-                { _t('Direct message') }
+                { _t("Message") }
             </AccessibleButton>
         );
     }
diff --git a/src/i18n/strings/en_EN.json b/src/i18n/strings/en_EN.json
index 90c02aa1b3c..9c8bb513b9a 100644
--- a/src/i18n/strings/en_EN.json
+++ b/src/i18n/strings/en_EN.json
@@ -1839,7 +1839,7 @@
     "Mention": "Mention",
     "Invite": "Invite",
     "Share Link to User": "Share Link to User",
-    "Direct message": "Direct message",
+    "Message": "Message",
     "Demote yourself?": "Demote yourself?",
     "You will not be able to undo this change as you are demoting yourself, if you are the last privileged user in the space it will be impossible to regain privileges.": "You will not be able to undo this change as you are demoting yourself, if you are the last privileged user in the space it will be impossible to regain privileges.",
     "You will not be able to undo this change as you are demoting yourself, if you are the last privileged user in the room it will be impossible to regain privileges.": "You will not be able to undo this change as you are demoting yourself, if you are the last privileged user in the room it will be impossible to regain privileges.",