diff --git a/spacy/pipeline/spancat_exclusive.py b/spacy/pipeline/spancat_exclusive.py
index 58fcb5946..64a3e0b24 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline/spancat_exclusive.py
+++ b/spacy/pipeline/spancat_exclusive.py
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ def make_spancat(
 ) -> "Exclusive_SpanCategorizer":
     """Create a SpanCategorizerExclusive component. The span categorizer consists of two
     parts: a suggester function that proposes candidate spans, and a labeler
-    model that predicts a single label for each span.
+    model that predicts a maximum of one label for each span.
 
     suggester (Callable[[Iterable[Doc], Optional[Ops]], Ragged]): A function that suggests spans.
         Spans are returned as a ragged array with two integer columns, for the