diff --git a/docs/reference/query-dsl/fuzzy-query.asciidoc b/docs/reference/query-dsl/fuzzy-query.asciidoc
index fa11cb257d4b4..4be546916240f 100644
--- a/docs/reference/query-dsl/fuzzy-query.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/query-dsl/fuzzy-query.asciidoc
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ The fuzzy query uses similarity based on Levenshtein edit distance.
 
 ==== String fields
 
-The `fuzzy` query generates all possible matching terms that are within  the
+The `fuzzy` query generates matching terms that are within the
 maximum edit distance specified in `fuzziness` and then checks the term
 dictionary to find out which of those generated terms actually exist in the
-index.
+index. The final query uses up to `max_expansions` matching terms.
 
 Here is a simple example: