diff --git a/Doc/library/profile.rst b/Doc/library/profile.rst
index c2189e02656c7a..723f927135a0f4 100644
--- a/Doc/library/profile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/profile.rst
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ the following::
 
 The first line indicates that 214 calls were monitored.  Of those calls, 207
 were :dfn:`primitive`, meaning that the call was not induced via recursion. The
-next line: ``Ordered by: cumulative name``, indicates that the text string in the
+next line: ``Ordered by: cumulative time``, indicates that the text string in the
 far right column was used to sort the output. The column headings include:
 
 ncalls