diff --git a/diceware/diceware.py b/diceware/diceware.py
index 66e4ed2de016b436882d3d0d5a5ce7fad8f0b1be..16f901a262ab824b577ba06c4eaa540724075048 100644
--- a/diceware/diceware.py
+++ b/diceware/diceware.py
@@ -30,14 +30,9 @@ def handle_options(args):
 def get_wordlist(path):
     """Parse file at `path` and build a word list of it.
 
-    A wordlist is expected to contain lines of format::
-
-        <NUMS><TAB><WORD>\n
-
-    for instance::
-
-        136512\tTerm
-
+    A wordlist is expected to contain lines of words. Each line a
+    word. Empty lines are ignored. Returns a list of terms (lines)
+    found.
     """
     result = []
     with open(path, 'r') as fd: