diff --git a/docs/reference/mapping/types/text.asciidoc b/docs/reference/mapping/types/text.asciidoc
index e2336bd5cb066..db64e87412e03 100644
--- a/docs/reference/mapping/types/text.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/mapping/types/text.asciidoc
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ The following parameters are accepted by `text` fields:
 `index_phrases`::
 
     If enabled, two-term word combinations ('shingles') are indexed into a separate
-    field.  This allows exact phrase queries to run more efficiently, at the expense
+    field.  This allows exact phrase queries (no slop) to run more efficiently, at the expense
     of a larger index.  Note that this works best when stopwords are not removed,
     as phrases containing stopwords will not use the subsidiary field and will fall
     back to a standard phrase query.  Accepts `true` or `false` (default).
@@ -171,4 +171,4 @@ PUT my_index
 --------------------------------
 // CONSOLE
 <1> `min_chars` must be greater than zero, defaults to 2
-<2> `max_chars` must be greater than or equal to `min_chars` and less than 20, defaults to 5
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+<2> `max_chars` must be greater than or equal to `min_chars` and less than 20, defaults to 5