diff --git a/content/en/docs/concepts/configuration/configmap.md b/content/en/docs/concepts/configuration/configmap.md
index 439d6a049d..92935e2482 100644
--- a/content/en/docs/concepts/configuration/configmap.md
+++ b/content/en/docs/concepts/configuration/configmap.md
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ that lets you store configuration for other objects to use. Unlike most
 Kubernetes objects that have a `spec`, a ConfigMap has `data` and `binaryData`
 fields. These fields accept key-value pairs as their values.  Both the `data`
 field and the `binaryData` are optional. The `data` field is designed to
-contain UTF-8 byte sequences while the `binaryData` field is designed to
+contain UTF-8 strings while the `binaryData` field is designed to
 contain binary data as base64-encoded strings.
 
 The name of a ConfigMap must be a valid