diff --git a/pandas/core/arrays/datetimelike.py b/pandas/core/arrays/datetimelike.py
index f4f076103d8c3..8ada9d88e08bc 100644
--- a/pandas/core/arrays/datetimelike.py
+++ b/pandas/core/arrays/datetimelike.py
@@ -1787,7 +1787,7 @@ def strftime(self, date_format: str) -> npt.NDArray[np.object_]:
     ----------
     freq : str or Offset
         The frequency level to {op} the index to. Must be a fixed
-        frequency like 'S' (second) not 'ME' (month end). See
+        frequency like 's' (second) not 'ME' (month end). See
         :ref:`frequency aliases <timeseries.offset_aliases>` for
         a list of possible `freq` values.
     ambiguous : 'infer', bool-ndarray, 'NaT', default 'raise'