diff --git a/doc/kernel/memory_management/sys_mem_blocks.rst b/doc/kernel/memory_management/sys_mem_blocks.rst
index abc1edd1a803..da84f7c151ca 100644
--- a/doc/kernel/memory_management/sys_mem_blocks.rst
+++ b/doc/kernel/memory_management/sys_mem_blocks.rst
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ to a 4-byte boundary:
 
    SYS_MEM_BLOCKS_DEFINE(allocator, 64, 4, 4);
 
-Similarly, you can define a memory slab in private scope:
+Similarly, you can define a memory blocks allocator in private scope:
 
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