diff --git a/distributed/worker.py b/distributed/worker.py
index 2cd4b54566a..92e65769f1d 100644
--- a/distributed/worker.py
+++ b/distributed/worker.py
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ class Worker(ServerNode):
     scheduler_ip: str, optional
     scheduler_port: int, optional
     scheduler_file: str, optional
-    ip: str, optional
+    host: str, optional
     data: MutableMapping, type, None
         The object to use for storage, builds a disk-backed LRU dict by default
     nthreads: int, optional