diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
index 84d289bc441..2d4d5a9e609 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ task isn't already covered by the URL parsing functions above.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.7
       Moved from :rfc:`2396` to :rfc:`3986` for quoting URL strings. "~" is now
-      included in the set of reserved characters.
+      included in the set of unreserved characters.
 
    The optional *encoding* and *errors* parameters specify how to deal with
    non-ASCII characters, as accepted by the :meth:`str.encode` method.