diff --git a/src/corelib/text/qstringview.cpp b/src/corelib/text/qstringview.cpp
index 914f5a39d9a..302637eebf8 100644
--- a/src/corelib/text/qstringview.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/text/qstringview.cpp
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
 /*!
     \fn qsizetype QStringView::size() const
 
-    Returns the size of this string view, in UTF-16 code points (that is,
+    Returns the size of this string view, in UTF-16 code units (that is,
     surrogate pairs count as two for the purposes of this function, the same
     as in QString).