diff --git a/src/Rooms.ts b/src/Rooms.ts
index b7b2f64a779..707b44305be 100644
--- a/src/Rooms.ts
+++ b/src/Rooms.ts
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ export function looksLikeDirectMessageRoom(room: Room, myUserId: string): boolea
     if (myMembership == "join" || myMembership === "ban" || (me && me.isKicked())) {
         // Used to split rooms via tags
         const tagNames = Object.keys(room.tags);
-        // Used for 1:1 direct chats
+        // Used for 1:1 direct messages
         // Show 1:1 chats in separate "Direct Messages" section as long as they haven't
         // been moved to a different tag section
         const totalMemberCount = room.currentState.getJoinedMemberCount() +
diff --git a/src/actions/RoomListActions.ts b/src/actions/RoomListActions.ts
index 7860e1b2eee..696403aca82 100644
--- a/src/actions/RoomListActions.ts
+++ b/src/actions/RoomListActions.ts
@@ -90,9 +90,9 @@ export default class RoomListActions {
                 return Rooms.guessAndSetDMRoom(
                     room, newTag === DefaultTagID.DM,
                 ).catch((err) => {
-                    logger.error("Failed to set direct chat tag " + err);
-                    Modal.createTrackedDialog('Failed to set direct chat tag', '', ErrorDialog, {
-                        title: _t('Failed to set direct chat tag'),
+                    logger.error("Failed to set DM tag " + err);
+                    Modal.createTrackedDialog('Failed to set direct message tag', '', ErrorDialog, {
+                        title: _t('Failed to set direct message tag'),
                         description: ((err && err.message) ? err.message : _t('Operation failed')),
                     });
                 });
diff --git a/src/i18n/strings/en_EN.json b/src/i18n/strings/en_EN.json
index 86917dbb866..7fbcac9569a 100644
--- a/src/i18n/strings/en_EN.json
+++ b/src/i18n/strings/en_EN.json
@@ -3352,7 +3352,7 @@
     "Indexed rooms:": "Indexed rooms:",
     "%(doneRooms)s out of %(totalRooms)s": "%(doneRooms)s out of %(totalRooms)s",
     "Message downloading sleep time(ms)": "Message downloading sleep time(ms)",
-    "Failed to set direct chat tag": "Failed to set direct chat tag",
+    "Failed to set direct message tag": "Failed to set direct message tag",
     "Failed to remove tag %(tagName)s from room": "Failed to remove tag %(tagName)s from room",
     "Failed to add tag %(tagName)s to room": "Failed to add tag %(tagName)s to room",
     "Page Up": "Page Up",