diff --git a/spacy/tests/test_util.py b/spacy/tests/test_util.py
index 6b6e84a17..1410755db 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/test_util.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/test_util.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import pytest
 from spacy.gold import Example
 
-from .util import get_doc
+from .util import get_random_doc
 
 from spacy.util import minibatch_by_words
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from spacy.util import minibatch_by_words
     ],
 )
 def test_util_minibatch(doc_sizes, expected_batches):
-    docs = [get_doc(doc_size) for doc_size in doc_sizes]
+    docs = [get_random_doc(doc_size) for doc_size in doc_sizes]
     examples = [Example(doc=doc) for doc in docs]
     tol = 0.2
     batch_size = 1000
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ def test_util_minibatch(doc_sizes, expected_batches):
 )
 def test_util_minibatch_oversize(doc_sizes, expected_batches):
     """ Test that oversized documents are returned in their own batch"""
-    docs = [get_doc(doc_size) for doc_size in doc_sizes]
+    docs = [get_random_doc(doc_size) for doc_size in doc_sizes]
     examples = [Example(doc=doc) for doc in docs]
     tol = 0.2
     batch_size = 1000
diff --git a/spacy/tests/util.py b/spacy/tests/util.py
index 73650a6f7..3d0a023c9 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/util.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/util.py
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ def get_batch(batch_size):
     return docs
 
 
-def get_doc(n_words):
+def get_random_doc(n_words):
     vocab = Vocab()
     # Make the words numbers, so that they're easy to track.
     numbers = [str(i) for i in range(0, n_words)]