diff --git a/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_contractions.py b/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_contractions.py
index afb1b1fe5..568e34704 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_contractions.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_contractions.py
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ def test_punct(en_tokenizer):
     assert len(tokens) == 3
 
 
+@pytest.mark.xfail
 def test_therell(en_tokenizer):
     tokens = en_tokenizer("there'll")
     assert len(tokens) == 2