diff --git a/spacy/cli/assemble.py b/spacy/cli/assemble.py
index 7afe36c82..d17b9a8e2 100644
--- a/spacy/cli/assemble.py
+++ b/spacy/cli/assemble.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ def assemble_cli(
     ctx: typer.Context,  # This is only used to read additional arguments
     config_path: Path = Arg(..., help="Path to config file", exists=True, allow_dash=True),
     output_path: Path = Arg(..., help="Output directory to store assembled pipeline in"),
-    code_path: str = Opt("", "--code", "-c", help="Comma-separated paths to Python files with additional code (registered functions) to be included in the package"),
+    code_path: str = Opt("", "--code", "-c", help="Comma-separated paths to Python files with additional code (registered functions) to be imported"),
     verbose: bool = Opt(False, "--verbose", "-V", "-VV", help="Display more information for debugging purposes"),
     # fmt: on
 ):
diff --git a/spacy/cli/debug_config.py b/spacy/cli/debug_config.py
index 170dfc5e0..3729402df 100644
--- a/spacy/cli/debug_config.py
+++ b/spacy/cli/debug_config.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ def debug_config_cli(
     # fmt: off
     ctx: typer.Context,  # This is only used to read additional arguments
     config_path: Path = Arg(..., help="Path to config file", exists=True, allow_dash=True),
-    code_path: str = Opt("", "--code", "-c", help="Comma-separated paths to Python files with additional code (registered functions) to be included in the package"),
+    code_path: str = Opt("", "--code", "-c", help="Comma-separated paths to Python files with additional code (registered functions) to be imported"),
     show_funcs: bool = Opt(False, "--show-functions", "-F", help="Show an overview of all registered functions used in the config and where they come from (modules, files etc.)"),
     show_vars: bool = Opt(False, "--show-variables", "-V", help="Show an overview of all variables referenced in the config and their values. This will also reflect variables overwritten on the CLI.")
     # fmt: on
diff --git a/spacy/cli/debug_data.py b/spacy/cli/debug_data.py
index 7c7221272..e14b035d5 100644
--- a/spacy/cli/debug_data.py
+++ b/spacy/cli/debug_data.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ def debug_data_cli(
     # fmt: off
     ctx: typer.Context,  # This is only used to read additional arguments
     config_path: Path = Arg(..., help="Path to config file", exists=True, allow_dash=True),
-    code_path: str = Opt("", "--code", "-c", help="Comma-separated paths to Python files with additional code (registered functions) to be included in the package"),
+    code_path: str = Opt("", "--code", "-c", help="Comma-separated paths to Python files with additional code (registered functions) to be imported"),
     ignore_warnings: bool = Opt(False, "--ignore-warnings", "-IW", help="Ignore warnings, only show stats and errors"),
     verbose: bool = Opt(False, "--verbose", "-V", help="Print additional information and explanations"),
     no_format: bool = Opt(False, "--no-format", "-NF", help="Don't pretty-print the results"),
diff --git a/spacy/cli/evaluate.py b/spacy/cli/evaluate.py
index f5fdb185c..16c053077 100644
--- a/spacy/cli/evaluate.py
+++ b/spacy/cli/evaluate.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def evaluate_cli(
     model: str = Arg(..., help="Model name or path"),
     data_path: Path = Arg(..., help="Location of binary evaluation data in .spacy format", exists=True),
     output: Optional[Path] = Opt(None, "--output", "-o", help="Output JSON file for metrics", dir_okay=False),
-    code_path: str = Opt("", "--code", "-c", help="Comma-separated paths to Python files with additional code (registered functions) to be included in the package"),
+    code_path: str = Opt("", "--code", "-c", help="Comma-separated paths to Python files with additional code (registered functions) to be imported"),
     use_gpu: int = Opt(-1, "--gpu-id", "-g", help="GPU ID or -1 for CPU"),
     gold_preproc: bool = Opt(False, "--gold-preproc", "-G", help="Use gold preprocessing"),
     displacy_path: Optional[Path] = Opt(None, "--displacy-path", "-dp", help="Directory to output rendered parses as HTML", exists=True, file_okay=False),
diff --git a/spacy/cli/package.py b/spacy/cli/package.py
index cb0177b5d..7420fe36a 100644
--- a/spacy/cli/package.py
+++ b/spacy/cli/package.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ def package_cli(
     # fmt: off
     input_dir: Path = Arg(..., help="Directory with pipeline data", exists=True, file_okay=False),
     output_dir: Path = Arg(..., help="Output parent directory", exists=True, file_okay=False),
-    code_paths: str = Opt("", "--code", "-c", help="Comma-separated paths to Python files with additional code (registered functions) to be included in the package"),
+    code_paths: str = Opt("", "--code", "-c", help="Comma-separated paths to Python files with additional code (registered functions) to be imported"),
     meta_path: Optional[Path] = Opt(None, "--meta-path", "--meta", "-m", help="Path to meta.json", exists=True, dir_okay=False),
     create_meta: bool = Opt(False, "--create-meta", "-C", help="Create meta.json, even if one exists"),
     name: Optional[str] = Opt(None, "--name", "-n", help="Package name to override meta"),
diff --git a/spacy/cli/pretrain.py b/spacy/cli/pretrain.py
index 409a30bc0..d4a31d3c7 100644
--- a/spacy/cli/pretrain.py
+++ b/spacy/cli/pretrain.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ def pretrain_cli(
     ctx: typer.Context,  # This is only used to read additional arguments
     config_path: Path = Arg(..., help="Path to config file", exists=True, dir_okay=False, allow_dash=True),
     output_dir: Path = Arg(..., help="Directory to write weights to on each epoch"),
-    code_path: str = Opt("", "--code", "-c", help="Comma-separated paths to Python files with additional code (registered functions) to be included in the package"),
+    code_path: str = Opt("", "--code", "-c", help="Comma-separated paths to Python files with additional code (registered functions) to be imported"),
     resume_path: Optional[Path] = Opt(None, "--resume-path", "-r", help="Path to pretrained weights from which to resume pretraining"),
     epoch_resume: Optional[int] = Opt(None, "--epoch-resume", "-er", help="The epoch to resume counting from when using --resume-path. Prevents unintended overwriting of existing weight files."),
     use_gpu: int = Opt(-1, "--gpu-id", "-g", help="GPU ID or -1 for CPU"),
diff --git a/spacy/cli/train.py b/spacy/cli/train.py
index 0b6da0a4f..d780f714c 100644
--- a/spacy/cli/train.py
+++ b/spacy/cli/train.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ def train_cli(
     ctx: typer.Context,  # This is only used to read additional arguments
     config_path: Path = Arg(..., help="Path to config file", exists=True, allow_dash=True),
     output_path: Optional[Path] = Opt(None, "--output", "--output-path", "-o", help="Output directory to store trained pipeline in"),
-    code_path: str = Opt("", "--code", "-c", help="Comma-separated paths to Python files with additional code (registered functions) to be included in the package"),
+    code_path: str = Opt("", "--code", "-c", help="Comma-separated paths to Python files with additional code (registered functions) to be imported"),
     verbose: bool = Opt(False, "--verbose", "-V", "-VV", help="Display more information for debugging purposes"),
     use_gpu: int = Opt(-1, "--gpu-id", "-g", help="GPU ID or -1 for CPU")
     # fmt: on