diff --git a/runtime/doc/lua.txt b/runtime/doc/lua.txt
index 509ed7bf2c..a60153d65f 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/lua.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/lua.txt
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ updates.
 Parser files						*treesitter-parsers*
 
 Parsers are the heart of tree-sitter. They are libraries that tree-sitter will
-search for in the `parsers` runtime directory.
+search for in the `parser` runtime directory.
 
 For a parser to be available for a given language, there must be a file named
 `{lang}.so` within the parser directory.