diff --git a/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py b/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py
index fca45945a1e66..17448b38c30a1 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py
@@ -934,8 +934,8 @@ def cov(self, col1, col2):
     def crosstab(self, col1, col2):
         """
         Computes a pair-wise frequency table of the given columns. Also known as a contingency
-        table. The number of distinct values for each column should be less than 1e4. At most, 1e6
-        non-zero pair frequencies returned will be returned.
+        table. The number of distinct values for each column should be less than 1e4. At most 1e6
+        non-zero pair frequencies will be returned.
         The first column of each row will be the distinct values of `col1` and the column names
         will be the distinct values of `col2`. The name of the first column will be `$col1_$col2`.
         Pairs that have no occurrences will have `null` as their counts.
diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrameStatFunctions.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrameStatFunctions.scala
index e864f76fb39bd..cb88deab35968 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrameStatFunctions.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrameStatFunctions.scala
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ final class DataFrameStatFunctions private[sql](df: DataFrame) {
 
   /**
    * Computes a pair-wise frequency table of the given columns. Also known as a contingency table.
-   * The number of distinct values for each column should be less than 1e4. At most, 1e6 non-zero
-   * pair frequencies returned will be returned.
+   * The number of distinct values for each column should be less than 1e4. At most 1e6 non-zero
+   * pair frequencies will be returned.
    * The first column of each row will be the distinct values of `col1` and the column names will
    * be the distinct values of `col2`. The name of the first column will be `$col1_$col2`. Counts
    * will be returned as `Long`s. Pairs that have no occurrences will have `null` as their counts.