diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/WordlistLoader.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/WordlistLoader.java
index 8e18f4ad76d..0762c7cd631 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/WordlistLoader.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/WordlistLoader.java
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ import org.apache.lucene.util.IOUtils;
 /**
  * Loader for text files that represent a list of stopwords.
  *
- * @see IOUtils to obtain {@link Reader} instances
+ * @see IOUtils to obtain Reader instances
  * @lucene.internal
  */
 public class WordlistLoader {