diff --git a/doc/api.rst b/doc/api.rst
index 0e34b13f9a5..fb2296d1226 100644
--- a/doc/api.rst
+++ b/doc/api.rst
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ Top-level functions
    combine_by_coords
    combine_nested
    where
-   set_options
    infer_freq
    full_like
    zeros_like