diff --git a/pandas/core/frame.py b/pandas/core/frame.py
index a469f4965117b..b3ee6f92257a2 100644
--- a/pandas/core/frame.py
+++ b/pandas/core/frame.py
@@ -6983,7 +6983,7 @@ def value_counts(
         dropna: bool = True,
     ) -> Series:
         """
-        Return a Series containing counts of unique rows in the DataFrame.
+        Return a Series containing the frequency of each distinct row in the Dataframe.
 
         Parameters
         ----------