diff --git a/doc/api/modules.markdown b/doc/api/modules.markdown
index 35cdbac8b4..55e2fdc114 100644
--- a/doc/api/modules.markdown
+++ b/doc/api/modules.markdown
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ then it does *not* add the full resolved path to where `./lib`
 is on the filesystem.  Instead, it literally adds `'./lib'`,
 meaning that if you do `require('y.js')` in `/a/b/x.js`, then it'll look
 in `/a/b/lib/y.js`.  If you then did `require('y.js')` in
-`/l/m/n/o/p.js`, then it'd look in `/l/m/n/o/p/lib/y.js`.
+`/l/m/n/o/p.js`, then it'd look in `/l/m/n/o/lib/y.js`.
 
 In practice, people have used this as an ad hoc way to bundle
 dependencies, but this technique is brittle.