diff --git a/doc/api/process.md b/doc/api/process.md
index 79c423f752cd60..1ff369163b9126 100644
--- a/doc/api/process.md
+++ b/doc/api/process.md
@@ -1952,7 +1952,7 @@ If Node.js is spawned with an IPC channel, the `process.send()` method can be
 used to send messages to the parent process. Messages will be received as a
 [`'message'`][] event on the parent's [`ChildProcess`][] object.
 
-If Node.js was not spawned with an IPC channel, `process.send()` will be
+If Node.js was not spawned with an IPC channel, `process.send` will be
 `undefined`.
 
 The message goes through serialization and parsing. The resulting message might