diff --git a/docs/JestObjectAPI.md b/docs/JestObjectAPI.md
index e231ad590f87..7ab2b55efa45 100644
--- a/docs/JestObjectAPI.md
+++ b/docs/JestObjectAPI.md
@@ -1139,7 +1139,7 @@ test('will fail', () => {
 });
 ```
 
-`immediately` option is used to retry the failed test immediately.
+`immediately` option is used to retry the failed test immediately after the failure. If this option is not specified, the tests are retried after Jest is finished running all test in a file.
 
 ```js
 jest.retryTimes(3, {immediately: true});
diff --git a/packages/jest-circus/src/run.ts b/packages/jest-circus/src/run.ts
index dec3af02d943..0081a64453f1 100644
--- a/packages/jest-circus/src/run.ts
+++ b/packages/jest-circus/src/run.ts
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ const _runTestsForDescribeBlock = async (
       (global as Global.Global)[WAIT_BEFORE_RETRY] as string,
       10,
     ) || 0;
+
   const retryImmediately: boolean =
     // eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-globals
     ((global as Global.Global)[IMMEDIATELY] as any) || false;
diff --git a/packages/jest-environment/src/index.ts b/packages/jest-environment/src/index.ts
index f3b2e648cec1..37c61495d1a4 100644
--- a/packages/jest-environment/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/jest-environment/src/index.ts
@@ -309,9 +309,9 @@ export interface Jest {
   retryTimes(
     numRetries: number,
     options?: {
+      immediately?: boolean;
       logErrorsBeforeRetry?: boolean;
       waitBeforeRetry?: number;
-      immediately?: boolean;
     },
   ): Jest;
   /**
diff --git a/packages/jest-types/__typetests__/jest.test.ts b/packages/jest-types/__typetests__/jest.test.ts
index bdd26ae82811..9c5530e1e3eb 100644
--- a/packages/jest-types/__typetests__/jest.test.ts
+++ b/packages/jest-types/__typetests__/jest.test.ts
@@ -667,6 +667,9 @@ expect(jest.retryTimes(3, {logErrorsBeforeRetry: 'all'})).type.toRaiseError();
 expect(jest.retryTimes({logErrorsBeforeRetry: true})).type.toRaiseError();
 expect(jest.retryTimes(3, {waitBeforeRetry: 1000})).type.toEqual<typeof jest>();
 expect(jest.retryTimes(3, {waitBeforeRetry: true})).type.toRaiseError();
+expect(jest.retryTimes(3, {immediately: true})).type.toEqual<typeof jest>();
+expect(jest.retryTimes(3, {immediately: 'now'})).type.toRaiseError();
+expect(jest.retryTimes(3, {immediately: 1000})).type.toRaiseError();
 expect(jest.retryTimes({logErrorsBeforeRetry: 'all'})).type.toRaiseError();
 expect(jest.retryTimes()).type.toRaiseError();