diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/feature/Word2Vec.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/feature/Word2Vec.scala
index 5c64cb09d59488519925e7286546580d210e0f59..708dbeef84db468c1609971f0859d8ae0c8b739a 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/feature/Word2Vec.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/feature/Word2Vec.scala
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ final class Word2Vec(override val uid: String) extends Estimator[Word2VecModel]
 @Experimental
 class Word2VecModel private[ml] (
     override val uid: String,
-    @transient wordVectors: feature.Word2VecModel)
+    @transient private val wordVectors: feature.Word2VecModel)
   extends Model[Word2VecModel] with Word2VecBase {
 
   /**