diff --git a/docs/reference/query-dsl/match-query.asciidoc b/docs/reference/query-dsl/match-query.asciidoc
index b4e90e77650..890026cba4e 100644
--- a/docs/reference/query-dsl/match-query.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/query-dsl/match-query.asciidoc
@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ rewritten.
 Fuzzy transpositions (`ab` -> `ba`) are allowed by default but can be disabled
 by setting `fuzzy_transpositions` to `false`.
 
+Note that fuzzy matching is not applied to terms with synonyms, as under the hood
+these terms are expanded to a special synonym query that blends term frequencies,
+which does not support fuzzy expansion.
+
 Here is an example when providing additional parameters (note the slight
 change in structure, `message` is the field name):