diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6386dc1..924ff54 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 - Interactive mode for removing entries (`zoxide remove -i`).
 - Aliases for interactive `query` and `remove` (`zqi` and `zri` respectively)
-- Specify additional arguments to `fzf` with `$_ZO_FZF_ARGS`.
+- Specify additional arguments to `fzf` with `$_ZO_FZF_OPTS`.
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3ee8df5..e6295c2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ NOTE: PWD hooks are currently not supported for POSIX shells.
 - `$_ZO_EXCLUDE_DIRS`: list of directories separated by platform-specific
   characters ("`:`" on Linux and macOS, and "`;`" on Windows) to be excluded from
   the database
-- `$_ZO_FZF_ARGS`: extra arguments to pass to `fzf`
+- `$_ZO_FZF_OPTS`: extra arguments to pass to `fzf`
 - `$_ZO_MAXAGE`: sets the maximum total rank after which entries start getting deleted
 
 [`dirs` documentation]: https://docs.rs/dirs/latest/dirs/fn.data_local_dir.html
diff --git a/src/config.rs b/src/config.rs
index 733fec8..3e49f65 100644
--- a/src/config.rs
+++ b/src/config.rs
@@ -37,10 +37,10 @@ pub fn zo_exclude_dirs() -> Vec<PathBuf> {
 }
 
 pub fn zo_fzf_args() -> Result<Vec<String>> {
-    match env::var("_ZO_FZF_ARGS") {
-        Ok(fzf_args) => shlex::split(&fzf_args).ok_or_else(|| anyhow!("could not parse _ZO_FZF_ARGS")),
+    match env::var("_ZO_FZF_OPTS") {
+        Ok(fzf_args) => shlex::split(&fzf_args).ok_or_else(|| anyhow!("could not parse _ZO_FZF_OPTS")),
         Err(env::VarError::NotPresent) => Ok(Vec::new()),
-        Err(e) => Err(e).context("invalid Unicode in _ZO_FZF_ARGS"),
+        Err(e) => Err(e).context("invalid Unicode in _ZO_FZF_OPTS"),
     }
 }