diff --git a/xdocs/scoring.xml b/xdocs/scoring.xml
index 44bd59f7bb8..76c242e234b 100644
--- a/xdocs/scoring.xml
+++ b/xdocs/scoring.xml
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
                 Due to loss of precision, it is not guaranteed that decode(encode(x)) = x,
                 e.g. decode(encode(0.89)) = 0.75.
                 At scoring (search) time, this norm is brought into the score of document
-                as <b>indexBoost</b>, as shown by the formula in
+                as <b>norm(t, d)</b>, as shown by the formula in
                 <a href="api/org/apache/lucene/search/Similarity.html">Similarity</a>.
                 </p>
             </subsection>