diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.25.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.25.0.rst
index 72c40b04a1195..d186fdfe0f322 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.25.0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.25.0.rst
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ Bug Fixes
 ~~~~~~~~~
 - Bug in :func:`to_datetime` which would raise an (incorrect) ``ValueError`` when called with a date far into the future and the ``format`` argument specified instead of raising ``OutOfBoundsDatetime`` (:issue:`23830`)
 - Bug in an error message in :meth:`DataFrame.plot`. Improved the error message if non-numerics are passed to :meth:`DataFrame.plot` (:issue:`25481`)
--
+- Bug in error messages in :meth:`DataFrame.corr` and :meth:`Series.corr`. Added the possibility of using a callable. (:issue:`25729`)
 
 Categorical
 ^^^^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/pandas/core/frame.py b/pandas/core/frame.py
index 3996728a1cc90..7317682d95256 100644
--- a/pandas/core/frame.py
+++ b/pandas/core/frame.py
@@ -7088,8 +7088,8 @@ def corr(self, method='pearson', min_periods=1):
                     correl[j, i] = c
         else:
             raise ValueError("method must be either 'pearson', "
-                             "'spearman', or 'kendall', '{method}' "
-                             "was supplied".format(method=method))
+                             "'spearman', 'kendall', or a callable, "
+                             "'{method}' was supplied".format(method=method))
 
         return self._constructor(correl, index=idx, columns=cols)
 
diff --git a/pandas/core/series.py b/pandas/core/series.py
index 03fc26efa4516..04fe3b4407149 100644
--- a/pandas/core/series.py
+++ b/pandas/core/series.py
@@ -2159,8 +2159,8 @@ def corr(self, other, method='pearson', min_periods=None):
                                   min_periods=min_periods)
 
         raise ValueError("method must be either 'pearson', "
-                         "'spearman', or 'kendall', '{method}' "
-                         "was supplied".format(method=method))
+                         "'spearman', 'kendall', or a callable, "
+                         "'{method}' was supplied".format(method=method))
 
     def cov(self, other, min_periods=None):
         """
diff --git a/pandas/tests/frame/test_analytics.py b/pandas/tests/frame/test_analytics.py
index 2969e8be2db03..88c8d89ec4b63 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/frame/test_analytics.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/frame/test_analytics.py
@@ -332,8 +332,8 @@ def test_corr_cov_independent_index_column(self):
     def test_corr_invalid_method(self):
         # GH 22298
         df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.normal(size=(10, 2)))
-        msg = ("method must be either 'pearson', 'spearman', "
-               "or 'kendall'")
+        msg = ("method must be either 'pearson', "
+               "'spearman', 'kendall', or a callable, ")
         with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=msg):
             df.corr(method="____")
 
diff --git a/pandas/tests/series/test_analytics.py b/pandas/tests/series/test_analytics.py
index d7d9c526503cb..13195a0d81d9c 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/series/test_analytics.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/series/test_analytics.py
@@ -387,8 +387,8 @@ def test_corr_invalid_method(self):
         # GH PR #22298
         s1 = pd.Series(np.random.randn(10))
         s2 = pd.Series(np.random.randn(10))
-        msg = ("method must be either 'pearson', 'spearman', "
-               "or 'kendall'")
+        msg = ("method must be either 'pearson', "
+               "'spearman', 'kendall', or a callable, ")
         with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=msg):
             s1.corr(s2, method="____")