diff --git a/spacy/default_config.cfg b/spacy/default_config.cfg
index 0f7226083..42081f410 100644
--- a/spacy/default_config.cfg
+++ b/spacy/default_config.cfg
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ seed = ${system.seed}
 gpu_allocator = ${system.gpu_allocator}
 dropout = 0.1
 accumulate_gradient = 1
-# Controls early-stopping. 0 or -1 mean unlimited.
+# Controls early-stopping. 0 disables early stopping.
 patience = 1600
 max_epochs = 0
 max_steps = 20000