diff --git a/extra/io/encodings/utf16/utf16-docs.factor b/extra/io/encodings/utf16/utf16-docs.factor
index bc0e943415..1666219db5 100644
--- a/extra/io/encodings/utf16/utf16-docs.factor
+++ b/extra/io/encodings/utf16/utf16-docs.factor
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ HELP: utf16
 { $see-also "encodings-introduction" } ;
 
 HELP: utf16n
-{ $class-description "The encoding descriptor for UTF-16 without a byte order mark in native endian order. This is useful mostly for FFI calls which take input of strings in of wide_t*." }
+{ $class-description "The encoding descriptor for UTF-16 without a byte order mark in native endian order. This is useful mostly for FFI calls which take input of strings of the type wchar_t*" }
 { $see-also "encodings-introduction" } ;
 
 { utf16 utf16le utf16be utf16n } related-words