From 67b8921fc0a3da0967919c2f02d1d64ee8fd9c37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Allen Downey <downey@allendowney.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 13:35:42 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Clarification in docstring of Series.value_counts (#25062)

---
 pandas/core/base.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/base.py b/pandas/core/base.py
index c02ba88ea7fdae..7b3152595e4b24 100644
--- a/pandas/core/base.py
+++ b/pandas/core/base.py
@@ -1234,7 +1234,7 @@ def value_counts(self, normalize=False, sort=True, ascending=False,
             If True then the object returned will contain the relative
             frequencies of the unique values.
         sort : boolean, default True
-            Sort by values.
+            Sort by frequencies.
         ascending : boolean, default False
             Sort in ascending order.
         bins : integer, optional