diff --git a/changelog/3907.doc.rst b/changelog/3907.doc.rst
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+Corrected type of the exceptions collection passed to ``xfail``: ``raises`` argument accepts a ``tuple`` instead of ``list``.
diff --git a/doc/en/skipping.rst b/doc/en/skipping.rst
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@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ on a particular platform::
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 If you want to be more specific as to why the test is failing, you can specify
-a single exception, or a list of exceptions, in the ``raises`` argument.
+a single exception, or a tuple of exceptions, in the ``raises`` argument.
 
 .. code-block:: python