diff --git a/docs/source/CppUsage.md b/docs/source/CppUsage.md
index 7f08e710c..6fec30c7d 100644
--- a/docs/source/CppUsage.md
+++ b/docs/source/CppUsage.md
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ include paths. If not specified, any include statements try to resolve from
 the current directory.
 
 If there were any parsing errors, `Parse` will return `false`, and
-`Parser::err` contains a human readable error string with a line number
+`Parser::error_` contains a human readable error string with a line number
 etc, which you should present to the creator of that file.
 
 After each JSON file, the `Parser::fbb` member variable is the