diff --git a/pmd/rulesets/strings.xml b/pmd/rulesets/strings.xml
index b58d9390cb..28cb870b75 100644
--- a/pmd/rulesets/strings.xml
+++ b/pmd/rulesets/strings.xml
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ public class Foo {
     </rule>
 
     <rule name="InsufficientStringBufferDeclaration"
-        message="StringBuffer constructor is initialized with size {0}, but has {1} characters appended"
+        message="StringBuffer constructor is initialized with size {0}, but has at least {1} characters appended"
         class="net.sourceforge.pmd.rules.strings.InsufficientStringBufferDeclaration">
     <description>
 Failing to pre-size a StringBuffer properly could cause it to re-size many times