diff --git a/python/pyspark/mllib/linalg/__init__.py b/python/pyspark/mllib/linalg/__init__.py
index 131b855bf99c3..abf00a4737948 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/mllib/linalg/__init__.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/mllib/linalg/__init__.py
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ def __reduce__(self):
     @staticmethod
     def parse(s):
         """
-        Parse string representation back into the DenseVector.
+        Parse string representation back into the SparseVector.
 
         >>> SparseVector.parse(' (4, [0,1 ],[ 4.0,5.0] )')
         SparseVector(4, {0: 4.0, 1: 5.0})