diff --git a/tensorflow/python/data/ops/dataset_ops.py b/tensorflow/python/data/ops/dataset_ops.py
index 8d2d1ff18d4..75d8b3ab664 100644
--- a/tensorflow/python/data/ops/dataset_ops.py
+++ b/tensorflow/python/data/ops/dataset_ops.py
@@ -1389,7 +1389,7 @@ class DatasetV2(tracking_base.Trackable, composite_tensor.CompositeTensor):
 
     Unlike `tf.data.Dataset.batch`, the input elements to be batched may have
     different shapes, and this transformation will pad each component to the
-    respective shape in `padding_shapes`. The `padding_shapes` argument
+    respective shape in `padded_shapes`. The `padded_shapes` argument
     determines the resulting shape for each dimension of each component in an
     output element: