diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/playbooks_tests.rst b/docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/playbooks_tests.rst
index 5163fc20678..0eb11f3b069 100644
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/playbooks_tests.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/playbooks_tests.rst
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Such as::
 Testing strings
 ```````````````
 
-To match strings against a substring or a regex, use the "match" or "search" filter::
+To match strings against a substring or a regular expression, use the "match", "search" or "regex" filters::
 
     vars:
       url: "http://example.com/users/foo/resources/bar"
@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ To match strings against a substring or a regex, use the "match" or "search" fil
             msg: "matched pattern 3"
           when: url is search("/users/")
 
+        - debug:
+            msg: "matched pattern 4"
+          when: url is regex("example.com/\w+/foo")
+
 'match' requires a complete match in the string, while 'search' only requires matching a subset of the string.