diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Vector/IR/VectorOps.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Vector/IR/VectorOps.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Vector/IR/VectorOps.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Vector/IR/VectorOps.cpp
@@ -1189,7 +1189,7 @@
   if (positionAttr.size() >
       static_cast<unsigned>(getSourceVectorType().getRank()))
     return emitOpError(
-        "expected position attribute of rank smaller than vector rank");
+        "expected position attribute of rank no greater than vector rank");
   for (const auto &en : llvm::enumerate(positionAttr)) {
     auto attr = llvm::dyn_cast<IntegerAttr>(en.value());
     if (!attr || attr.getInt() < 0 ||
@@ -2328,7 +2328,7 @@
   auto destVectorType = getDestVectorType();
   if (positionAttr.size() > static_cast<unsigned>(destVectorType.getRank()))
     return emitOpError(
-        "expected position attribute of rank smaller than dest vector rank");
+        "expected position attribute of rank no greater than dest vector rank");
   auto srcVectorType = llvm::dyn_cast<VectorType>(getSourceType());
   if (srcVectorType &&
       (static_cast<unsigned>(srcVectorType.getRank()) + positionAttr.size() !=
@@ -2489,7 +2489,7 @@
                                                         StringRef attrName) {
   if (arrayAttr.size() > shape.size())
     return op.emitOpError("expected ")
-           << attrName << " attribute of rank smaller than vector rank";
+           << attrName << " attribute of rank no greater than vector rank";
   return success();
 }
 
@@ -2580,7 +2580,7 @@
     return emitOpError("expected strides of same size as source vector rank");
   if (sourceVectorType.getRank() > destVectorType.getRank())
     return emitOpError(
-        "expected source rank to be smaller than destination rank");
+        "expected source rank to be no greater than destination rank");
 
   auto sourceShape = sourceVectorType.getShape();
   auto destShape = destVectorType.getShape();
diff --git a/mlir/test/Dialect/Vector/invalid.mlir b/mlir/test/Dialect/Vector/invalid.mlir
--- a/mlir/test/Dialect/Vector/invalid.mlir
+++ b/mlir/test/Dialect/Vector/invalid.mlir
@@ -125,14 +125,14 @@
 // -----
 
 func.func @extract_position_rank_overflow(%arg0: vector<4x8x16xf32>) {
-  // expected-error@+1 {{expected position attribute of rank smaller than vector}}
+  // expected-error@+1 {{expected position attribute of rank no greater than vector rank}}
   %1 = vector.extract %arg0[0, 0, 0, 0] : vector<4x8x16xf32>
 }
 
 // -----
 
 func.func @extract_position_rank_overflow_generic(%arg0: vector<4x8x16xf32>) {
-  // expected-error@+1 {{expected position attribute of rank smaller than vector}}
+  // expected-error@+1 {{expected position attribute of rank no greater than vector rank}}
   %1 = "vector.extract" (%arg0) { position = [0, 0, 0, 0] } : (vector<4x8x16xf32>) -> (vector<16xf32>)
 }
 
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
 // -----
 
 func.func @insert_vector_type(%a: f32, %b: vector<4x8x16xf32>) {
-  // expected-error@+1 {{expected position attribute of rank smaller than dest vector rank}}
+  // expected-error@+1 {{expected position attribute of rank no greater than dest vector rank}}
   %1 = vector.insert %a, %b[3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3] : f32 into vector<4x8x16xf32>
 }
 
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@
 // -----
 
 func.func @insert_strided_slice(%a: vector<4x4xf32>, %b: vector<4x8x16xf32>) {
-  // expected-error@+1 {{expected source rank to be smaller than destination rank}}
+  // expected-error@+1 {{expected source rank to be no greater than destination rank}}
   %1 = vector.insert_strided_slice %b, %a {offsets = [2, 2], strides = [1, 1, 1]} : vector<4x8x16xf32> into vector<4x4xf32>
 }
 
@@ -601,14 +601,14 @@
 // -----
 
 func.func @extract_strided_slice(%arg0: vector<4x8x16xf32>) {
-  // expected-error@+1 {{expected offsets attribute of rank smaller than vector rank}}
+  // expected-error@+1 {{expected offsets attribute of rank no greater than vector rank}}
   %1 = vector.extract_strided_slice %arg0 {offsets = [2, 2, 2, 2], sizes = [2, 2, 2, 2], strides = [1, 1, 1, 1]} : vector<4x8x16xf32> to vector<2x2x16xf32>
 }
 
 // -----
 
 func.func @extract_strided_slice(%arg0: vector<4x8x16xf32>) {
-  // expected-error@+1 {{expected offsets attribute of rank smaller than vector rank}}
+  // expected-error@+1 {{expected offsets attribute of rank no greater than vector rank}}
   %1 = vector.extract_strided_slice %arg0 {offsets = [2, 2, 2, 2], sizes = [2, 2, 2, 2], strides = [1, 1, 1, 1]} : vector<4x8x16xf32> to vector<2x2x16xf32>
 }