diff --git a/docs/reference/elasticsearch/mapping-reference/semantic-text.md b/docs/reference/elasticsearch/mapping-reference/semantic-text.md
index 943805256a381..6fc09644d7fb9 100644
--- a/docs/reference/elasticsearch/mapping-reference/semantic-text.md
+++ b/docs/reference/elasticsearch/mapping-reference/semantic-text.md
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ fragments when the field is not of type semantic_text, you can explicitly
 enforce the `semantic` highlighter in the query:
 
 ```console
-PUT test-index
+POST test-index/_search
 {
     "query": {
         "match": {