diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk/bin/cdk.ts b/packages/aws-cdk/bin/cdk.ts
index a9d5c8e0d9f0b..7c69bcb43a3f3 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk/bin/cdk.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk/bin/cdk.ts
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ async function parseCommandLineArguments() {
     .option('ec2creds', { type: 'boolean', alias: 'i', default: undefined, desc: 'Force trying to fetch EC2 instance credentials. Default: guess EC2 instance status' })
     .option('version-reporting', { type: 'boolean', desc: 'Include the "AWS::CDK::Metadata" resource in synthesized templates (enabled by default)', default: undefined })
     .option('path-metadata', { type: 'boolean', desc: 'Include "aws:cdk:path" CloudFormation metadata for each resource (enabled by default)', default: true })
-    .option('asset-metadata', { type: 'boolean', desc: 'Include "aws:asset:*" CloudFormation metadata for resources that user assets (enabled by default)', default: true })
+    .option('asset-metadata', { type: 'boolean', desc: 'Include "aws:asset:*" CloudFormation metadata for resources that uses assets (enabled by default)', default: true })
     .option('role-arn', { type: 'string', alias: 'r', desc: 'ARN of Role to use when invoking CloudFormation', default: undefined, requiresArg: true })
     .option('toolkit-stack-name', { type: 'string', desc: 'The name of the CDK toolkit stack', requiresArg: true })
     .option('staging', { type: 'boolean', desc: 'Copy assets to the output directory (use --no-staging to disable, needed for local debugging the source files with SAM CLI)', default: true })