diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/package-info.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/package-info.java
index ea5981c60f3..366633505dc 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/package-info.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/package-info.java
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@
* {@link org.apache.lucene.search.FuzzyQuery FuzzyQuery}
* matches documents that contain terms similar to the specified term. Similarity is
* determined using
- * Levenshtein (edit) distance.
+ * Levenshtein distance.
* This type of query can be useful when accounting for spelling variations in the collection.
*
*