diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/tasks/initializers.rake b/railties/lib/rails/tasks/initializers.rake
index 7ccf7455bbd85cff087aa7b7389134181ff40bc4..1fa8ca4f51299348648e75284d6a9d043a7e1a4d 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/tasks/initializers.rake
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/tasks/initializers.rake
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 require "rails/command"
 require "active_support/deprecation"
 
-desc "Print out all defined initializers in the order they are invoked by Rails."
 task :initializers do
   ActiveSupport::Deprecation.warn("Using `bin/rake initializers` is deprecated and will be removed in Rails 6.1. Use `bin/rails initializers` instead.\n")
   Rails::Command.invoke "initializers"