diff --git a/src/liballoc/vec_deque.rs b/src/liballoc/vec_deque.rs
index 7d15b790b24ad..4b167bd20bfbe 100644
--- a/src/liballoc/vec_deque.rs
+++ b/src/liballoc/vec_deque.rs
@@ -1635,7 +1635,7 @@ impl<T> VecDeque<T> {
     ///
     /// # Panics
     ///
-    /// Panics if `at` is out of bounds.
+    /// Panics if `at > len`.
     ///
     /// # Examples
     ///