diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
index e685b33302b..d269d0b0eaa 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -2812,7 +2812,7 @@ features:
    no effect on the behavior of the walk, because in bottom-up mode the directories
    in *dirnames* are generated before *dirpath* itself is generated.
 
-   By default, errors from the :func:`listdir` call are ignored.  If optional
+   By default, errors from the :func:`scandir` call are ignored.  If optional
    argument *onerror* is specified, it should be a function; it will be called with
    one argument, an :exc:`OSError` instance.  It can report the error to continue
    with the walk, or raise the exception to abort the walk.  Note that the filename