diff --git a/docs/reference/analysis/tokenfilters/stop-tokenfilter.asciidoc b/docs/reference/analysis/tokenfilters/stop-tokenfilter.asciidoc
index 3167a4342ac..259bf785b5b 100644
--- a/docs/reference/analysis/tokenfilters/stop-tokenfilter.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/analysis/tokenfilters/stop-tokenfilter.asciidoc
@@ -78,4 +78,4 @@ Elasticsearch provides the following predefined list of languages:
 `_portuguese_`, `_romanian_`, `_russian_`, `_sorani_`, `_spanish_`,
 `_swedish_`, `_thai_`, `_turkish_`.
 
-For the empty stopwords list (to disable stopwords) use: `\_none_`.
+For the empty stopwords list (to disable stopwords) use: `_none_`.