diff --git a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/String.java b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/String.java
index a0617920e47..021739fa068 100644
--- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/String.java
+++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/String.java
@@ -2111,7 +2111,7 @@ public final class String
      * as {@link #getBytes(Charset) getBytes(cs).length}.
      *
      * @apiNote This method provides equivalent or better performance than {@link #getBytes(Charset)
-     *          getBytes(cs).length}. It may allocate memory to compute the length for some charsets.
+     *          getBytes(cs).length}. This method may allocate memory to compute the length for some charsets.
      *
      * @param cs The {@link Charset} used to the compute the length
      * @since 27