diff --git a/spacy/lang/en/tokenizer_exceptions.py b/spacy/lang/en/tokenizer_exceptions.py
index 5063319a6..9731dc752 100644
--- a/spacy/lang/en/tokenizer_exceptions.py
+++ b/spacy/lang/en/tokenizer_exceptions.py
@@ -537,6 +537,7 @@ for orth in [
     "Sen.",
     "St.",
     "vs.",
+    "v.s."
 ]:
     _exc[orth] = [{ORTH: orth}]