diff --git a/bleach/linkifier.py b/bleach/linkifier.py
index b5a3041e..679d7ead 100644
--- a/bleach/linkifier.py
+++ b/bleach/linkifier.py
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ def __init__(
 
         :arg email_re: email matching regex
 
-        :arg set recognized_tags: the list of tags that linkify knows about;
+        :arg set recognized_tags: the set of tags that linkify knows about;
             everything else gets escaped
 
         :returns: linkified text as unicode