diff --git a/share/functions/fish_is_nth_token.fish b/share/functions/fish_is_nth_token.fish
index c3f23cf53..907caae71 100644
--- a/share/functions/fish_is_nth_token.fish
+++ b/share/functions/fish_is_nth_token.fish
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-function fish_is_nth_token --description 'Test if current token is on Nth place' --argument-names n
+function fish_is_nth_token --description 'Test if current token is the Nth (ignoring command and switches/flags)' --argument-names n
     set -l tokens (commandline -poc)
     set -l tokens (string replace -r --filter '^([^-].*)' '$1' -- $tokens)
     test (count $tokens) -eq "$n"