diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
index 1a52a759059..6c9dbf8ad44 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -2069,7 +2069,7 @@ These are the fundamental ctypes data types:
 
 .. class:: c_float
 
-   Represents the C double datatype. The constructor accepts an optional float
+   Represents the C float datatype. The constructor accepts an optional float
    initializer.