diff --git a/docs/html/guide/topics/providers/content-provider-basics.jd b/docs/html/guide/topics/providers/content-provider-basics.jd
index 527e71381bea6..199a671bb938e 100644
--- a/docs/html/guide/topics/providers/content-provider-basics.jd
+++ b/docs/html/guide/topics/providers/content-provider-basics.jd
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ page.title=Content Provider Basics
 <p>
     A content provider presents data to external applications as one or more tables that are
     similar to the tables found in a relational database. A row represents an instance of some type
-    of data the provider collects, and each row in the column represents an individual piece of
+    of data the provider collects, and each column in the row represents an individual piece of
     data collected for an instance.
 </p>
 <p>