diff --git a/snippets/collect_dictionary.md b/snippets/collect_dictionary.md
index 85a50660e..d4b9112cc 100644
--- a/snippets/collect_dictionary.md
+++ b/snippets/collect_dictionary.md
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ tags: dictionary,intermediate
 
 Inverts a dictionary with non-unique hashable values.
 
-- Use `dictionary.items()` in combination with a loop to map the values of the dictionary to keys using `collections.defaultdict`, `list()` and `append()` to create a list for each one.
+- Create a `defaultdict` with `list` as the default value for each key. 
+- Use `dictionary.items()` in combination with a loop to map the values of the dictionary to keys using `append()`.
+- Use `dict()` to convert the `defaultdict` to a regular dictionary.
 
 ```py
 from collections import defaultdict
@@ -14,7 +16,7 @@ def collect_dictionary(obj):
   inv_obj = defaultdict(list)
   for key, value in obj.items():
     inv_obj[value].append(key)
-  return inv_obj
+  return dict(inv_obj)
 ```
 
 ```py