diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst
index d084179..222c248 100644
--- a/Doc/library/collections.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst
@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@
 three additional methods and one attribute.  To prevent conflicts with
 field names, the method and attribute names start with an underscore.
 
-.. method:: somenamedtuple._make(iterable)
+.. classmethod:: somenamedtuple._make(iterable)
 
    Class method that makes a new instance from an existing sequence or iterable.