diff --git a/metrics/metrics.go b/metrics/metrics.go
index 4b9dfba29..87007a2c6 100644
--- a/metrics/metrics.go
+++ b/metrics/metrics.go
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ var (
 		&metrics.CounterOpts{
 			Subsystem:      DeschedulerSubsystem,
 			Name:           "pods_evicted",
-			Help:           "Number of evicted pods, by the result, by the strategy, by the namespace, by the node name. 'failed' result means a pod could not be evicted",
+			Help:           "Number of evicted pods, by the result, by the strategy, by the namespace, by the node name. 'error' result means a pod could not be evicted",
 			StabilityLevel: metrics.ALPHA,
 		}, []string{"result", "strategy", "namespace", "node"})