diff --git a/docs/reference/api-conventions.asciidoc b/docs/reference/api-conventions.asciidoc
index fc8b60a91af..25b9ac4fcea 100644
--- a/docs/reference/api-conventions.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/api-conventions.asciidoc
@@ -219,8 +219,8 @@ the maximum allowed Levenshtein Edit Distance (or number of edits)
 --
 generates an edit distance based on the length of the term. For lengths:
 
-`0..1`:: must match exactly
-`1..5`:: one edit allowed
+`0..2`:: must match exactly
+`3..5`:: one edit allowed
 `>5`:: two edits allowed
 
 `AUTO` should generally be the preferred value for `fuzziness`.