diff --git a/docs/reference/query-dsl/match-query.asciidoc b/docs/reference/query-dsl/match-query.asciidoc
index 9d30e58183f..fd235d3450e 100644
--- a/docs/reference/query-dsl/match-query.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/query-dsl/match-query.asciidoc
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ automatically transformed into a pure conjunction (`and`) query to
 ensure fast execution.
 
 The `cutoff_frequency` can either be relative to the total number of
-documents if in the range `[0..1)` or absolute if greater or equal to
+documents if in the range from 0 (inclusive) to 1 (exclusive) or absolute if greater or equal to
 `1.0`.
 
 Here is an example showing a query composed of stopwords exclusively: