diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/DocValuesRangeFilter.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/DocValuesRangeFilter.java
index b439f900d8a..336bda27079 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/DocValuesRangeFilter.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/DocValuesRangeFilter.java
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.NumericUtils;
 
 /**
- * A range filter built on top of an uninverted single term field 
+ * A range filter built on top of numeric doc values field 
  * (from {@link AtomicReader#getNumericDocValues(String)}).
  * 
  * <p>{@code DocValuesRangeFilter} builds a single cache for the field the first time it is used.