diff --git a/src/gui/text/qfont.cpp b/src/gui/text/qfont.cpp
index 3ae427a98bb..2ff91daf93a 100644
--- a/src/gui/text/qfont.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/text/qfont.cpp
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ QFontEngineData::~QFontEngineData()
     actually used are retrievable from a QFontInfo object. If the
     window system provides an exact match exactMatch() returns \c true.
     Use QFontMetricsF to get measurements, e.g. the pixel length of a
-    string using QFontMetrics::width().
+    string using QFontMetrics::horizontalAdvance().
 
     Attributes which are not specifically set will not affect the font
     selection algorithm, and default values will be preferred instead.