diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index 8d62e3bf4d8d83..f33b36855e2e76 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -523,10 +523,9 @@ character ``'$'``.
``\w``
For Unicode (str) patterns:
- Matches Unicode word characters; this includes most characters
- that can be part of a word in any language, as well as numbers and
- the underscore. If the :const:`ASCII` flag is used, only
- ``[a-zA-Z0-9_]`` is matched.
+ Matches Unicode word characters; this includes alphanumeric characters (as defined by :meth:`str.isalnum`)
+ as well as the underscore (``_``).
+ If the :const:`ASCII` flag is used, only ``[a-zA-Z0-9_]`` is matched.
For 8-bit (bytes) patterns:
Matches characters considered alphanumeric in the ASCII character set;
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