diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst
index d80b5bf94e4d24..25e5e22fa37fdb 100644
--- a/Doc/library/collections.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ field names, the method and attribute names start with an underscore.
    .. versionchanged:: 2.7
       Returns an :class:`OrderedDict` instead of a regular :class:`dict`.
 
-.. method:: somenamedtuple._replace(kwargs)
+.. method:: somenamedtuple._replace(**kwargs)
 
    Return a new instance of the named tuple replacing specified fields with new
    values::