diff --git a/Doc/library/json.rst b/Doc/library/json.rst
index 39ca23335373..095119c0c9db 100644
--- a/Doc/library/json.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/json.rst
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ Basic Usage
    specified.  Encodings that are not ASCII based (such as UCS-2) are not
    allowed and should be decoded to :class:`unicode` first.
 
-   The other arguments have the same meaning as in :func:`dump`.
+   The other arguments have the same meaning as in :func:`load`.
 
 
 Encoders and decoders