diff --git a/website/docs/cli/config/environment-variables.mdx b/website/docs/cli/config/environment-variables.mdx
index 9453c5a209..fc2b93b976 100644
--- a/website/docs/cli/config/environment-variables.mdx
+++ b/website/docs/cli/config/environment-variables.mdx
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ The location of the [Terraform CLI configuration file](/terraform/cli/config/con
 export TF_CLI_CONFIG_FILE="$HOME/.terraformrc-custom"
 ```
 
-(Note that `TERRAFORM_CONFIG` is a deprecated alias for this variable. Please do not use `TERRAFORM_CONFIG` as it may be removed in future versions of Terraform.)
+Note that `TERRAFORM_CONFIG` is a deprecated alias for the `TF_CLI_CONFIG_FILE` variable. We recommend using `TF_CLI_CONFIG_FILE` instead of the deprecated `TERRAFORM_CONFIG` variable.
 
 ## TF_PLUGIN_CACHE_DIR