diff --git a/common/locale/en-US/options.xml b/common/locale/en-US/options.xml
index 107a479b..08047de4 100644
--- a/common/locale/en-US/options.xml
+++ b/common/locale/en-US/options.xml
@@ -1011,6 +1011,16 @@
     </description>
 </item>
 
+<item>
+    <tags>'isk' 'iskeyword'</tags>
+    <spec>'iskeyword' 'isk'</spec>
+    <type>&option.iskeyword.type;</type>
+    <default>&option.iskeyword.default;</default>
+    <description>
+        <p>Regular expression defining which characters constitute words.</p>
+    </description>
+</item>
+
 <item>
     <tags>'nojsd' 'nojsdebugger'</tags>
     <tags>'jsd' 'jsdebugger'</tags>
diff --git a/common/modules/buffer.jsm b/common/modules/buffer.jsm
index 30e710e8..e2cabf61 100644
--- a/common/modules/buffer.jsm
+++ b/common/modules/buffer.jsm
@@ -2113,7 +2113,7 @@ var Buffer = Module("Buffer", {
             });
 
         options.add(["iskeyword", "isk"],
-            "Regular expression defining which characters constitute word characters",
+            "Regular expression defining which characters constitute words",
             "string", '[^\\s.,!?:;/"\'^$%&?()[\\]{}<>#*+|=~_-]',
             {
                 setter: function (value) {