diff --git a/doc/api/buffer.md b/doc/api/buffer.md
index 1bdc976fd12e42..8cdf5571c61541 100644
--- a/doc/api/buffer.md
+++ b/doc/api/buffer.md
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ console.log(Buffer.from('fhqwhgads', 'utf16le'));
 ```
 
 Node.js buffers accept all case variations of encoding strings that they
-receive. For example, UTF-8 can be specified as `'utf8'`, `'UTF8'` or `'uTf8'`.
+receive. For example, UTF-8 can be specified as `'utf8'`, `'UTF8'`, or `'uTf8'`.
 
 The character encodings currently supported by Node.js are the following: