diff --git a/Doc/library/csv.rst b/Doc/library/csv.rst
index d39c4ca4a5838b..55b42802aa27ab 100644
--- a/Doc/library/csv.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/csv.rst
@@ -294,8 +294,8 @@ The :mod:`csv` module defines the following classes:
       - the second through n-th rows contain strings where at least one value's
         length differs from that of the putative header of that column.
 
-      Twenty rows after the first row are sampled; if more than half of columns +
-      rows meet the criteria, :const:`True` is returned.
+      Twenty-one rows after the first row are sampled; if more than half of the
+      columns + rows meet the criteria, :const:`True` is returned.
 
    .. note::