diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index e201ea6db1..9b4775e0a4 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
     There must be a key "entries", which is a list, an iterable, or a PagedList
     object, each element of which is a valid dictionary by this specification.
 
-    Additionally, playlists can have "title" and "id" attributes with the same
-    semantics as videos (see above).
+    Additionally, playlists can have "title", "description" and "id" attributes
+    with the same semantics as videos (see above).
 
 
     _type "multi_video" indicates that there are multiple videos that