diff --git a/docs/reference/analysis/tokenfilters/common-grams-tokenfilter.asciidoc b/docs/reference/analysis/tokenfilters/common-grams-tokenfilter.asciidoc
index 0e029fa2374da..1b253668570d3 100644
--- a/docs/reference/analysis/tokenfilters/common-grams-tokenfilter.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/analysis/tokenfilters/common-grams-tokenfilter.asciidoc
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ GET /_analyze
 {
   "tokenizer" : "whitespace",
   "filter" : [
-    "common_grams", {
+    {
       "type": "common_grams",
       "common_words": ["is", "the"]
     }