diff --git a/src/doc/rustc/src/codegen-options/index.md b/src/doc/rustc/src/codegen-options/index.md
index 5c41acc6581c5..e73fd43f19a51 100644
--- a/src/doc/rustc/src/codegen-options/index.md
+++ b/src/doc/rustc/src/codegen-options/index.md
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ flag will turn that behavior off.
 
 ## no-vectorize-slp
 
-By default, `rustc` will attempt to vectorize loops using [superword-level
+By default, `rustc` will attempt to vectorize code using [superword-level
 parallelism](https://llvm.org/docs/Vectorizers.html#the-slp-vectorizer). This
 flag will turn that behavior off.