diff --git a/src/api/baseapi.cpp b/src/api/baseapi.cpp
index 56956ef5c9..b26aaed6b2 100644
--- a/src/api/baseapi.cpp
+++ b/src/api/baseapi.cpp
@@ -1561,7 +1561,7 @@ char* TessBaseAPI::GetHOCRText(ETEXT_DESC* monitor, int page_number) {
     // Now, process the word...
     std::vector<std::vector<std::pair<const char*, float>>>* confidencemap = nullptr;
     if (tesseract_->lstm_choice_mode) {
-      confidencemap = res_it->GetBestLSTMChoices();
+      confidencemap = res_it->GetBestLSTMSymbolChoices();
     }
     hocr_str += "\n      <span class='ocrx_word'";
     AddIdTohOCR(&hocr_str, "word", page_id, wcnt);
diff --git a/src/ccmain/resultiterator.cpp b/src/ccmain/resultiterator.cpp
index 541e304d06..00b3f9ad2b 100644
--- a/src/ccmain/resultiterator.cpp
+++ b/src/ccmain/resultiterator.cpp
@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ char* ResultIterator::GetUTF8Text(PageIteratorLevel level) const {
   return result;
 }
 
-std::vector<std::vector<std::pair<const char*, float>>>* ResultIterator::GetBestLSTMChoices() const {
+std::vector<std::vector<std::pair<const char*, float>>>* ResultIterator::GetBestLSTMSymbolChoices() const {
   if (it_->word() != nullptr) {
     return &it_->word()->timesteps;
   } else {
diff --git a/src/ccmain/resultiterator.h b/src/ccmain/resultiterator.h
index 073388827d..b658e5a0fc 100644
--- a/src/ccmain/resultiterator.h
+++ b/src/ccmain/resultiterator.h
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ class TESS_API ResultIterator : public LTRResultIterator {
   /**
    * Returns the LSTM choices for every LSTM timestep for the current word.
   */
-  virtual std::vector<std::vector<std::pair<const char*, float>>>* GetBestLSTMChoices() const;
+  virtual std::vector<std::vector<std::pair<const char*, float>>>* GetBestLSTMSymbolChoices() const;
 
   /**
    * Return whether the current paragraph's dominant reading direction