diff --git a/dev-ruby/stringex/stringex-2.7.1.ebuild b/dev-ruby/stringex/stringex-2.7.1.ebuild
index 8adb0face612d..71237f02b888c 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/stringex/stringex-2.7.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ruby/stringex/stringex-2.7.1.ebuild
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/rsl/stringex"
 LICENSE="MIT"
 
 SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ppc ~ppc64"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86"
 IUSE="test"
 
 # we could rely on activerecord[sqlite3], but since we do not remove the