diff --git a/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/internal/SQLConf.scala b/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/internal/SQLConf.scala
index c9e1a87b63da8..b61324ff98ae5 100644
--- a/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/internal/SQLConf.scala
+++ b/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/internal/SQLConf.scala
@@ -1177,8 +1177,8 @@ object SQLConf {
     .createWithDefault(4 * 1024 * 1024)
 
   val FILES_MIN_PARTITION_NUM = buildConf("spark.sql.files.minPartitionNum")
-    .doc("The suggested (not guaranteed) minimum number of file split partitions. If not set, " +
-      "the default value is the default parallelism of the Spark cluster. This configuration is " +
+    .doc("The suggested (not guaranteed) minimum number of splitting file partitions. " +
+      "If not set, the default value is `spark.default.parallelism`. This configuration is " +
       "effective only when using file-based sources such as Parquet, JSON and ORC.")
     .version("3.1.0")
     .intConf