doc: update modules.md wording

PR-URL: #41728
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Mohammed Keyvanzadeh <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Mestery <[email protected]>

Author: thernstig

doc/api/modules.md

@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ folders as modules, and work for both `require` and `import`.
 
 If the module identifier passed to `require()` is not a
 [core](#core-modules) module, and does not begin with `'/'`, `'../'`, or
-`'./'`, then Node.js starts at the parent directory of the current module, and
+`'./'`, then Node.js starts at the directory of the current module, and
 adds `/node_modules`, and attempts to load the module from that location.
 Node.js will not append `node_modules` to a path already ending in
 `node_modules`.