diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index fc8c8a9..5cd9eb9 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -7524,11 +7524,11 @@
 }
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(replace__doc__,
-"S.replace (old, new[, maxsplit]) -> str\n\
+"S.replace (old, new[, count]) -> str\n\
 \n\
 Return a copy of S with all occurrences of substring\n\
-old replaced by new.  If the optional argument maxsplit is\n\
-given, only the first maxsplit occurrences are replaced.");
+old replaced by new.  If the optional argument count is\n\
+given, only the first count occurrences are replaced.");
 
 static PyObject*
 unicode_replace(PyUnicodeObject *self, PyObject *args)