diff --git a/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/UriUtils.java b/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/UriUtils.java
index b5a0848ec7..82879e8669 100644
--- a/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/UriUtils.java
+++ b/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/UriUtils.java
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ public abstract class UriUtils {
 
 
 	/**
-	 * Variant of {@link #decode(String, Charset)} with a String charset.
+	 * Variant of {@link #encode(String, Charset)} with a String charset.
 	 * @param source the String to be encoded
 	 * @param encoding the character encoding to encode to
 	 * @return the encoded String