diff --git a/src/Faker/Provider/Base.php b/src/Faker/Provider/Base.php
index 0fe8a13f64..9086ea5538 100644
--- a/src/Faker/Provider/Base.php
+++ b/src/Faker/Provider/Base.php
@@ -525,7 +525,9 @@ public static function regexify($regex = '')
         }, $regex);
         // All [ABC] become B (or A or C)
         $regex = preg_replace_callback('/\[([^\]]+)\]/', static function ($matches) {
-            $randomElement = Base::randomElement(str_split($matches[1]));
+            // remove backslashes (that are not followed by another backslash) because they are escape characters
+            $match = preg_replace('/\\\(?!\\\)/', '', $matches[1]);
+            $randomElement = Base::randomElement(str_split($match));
             //[.] should not be a random character, but a literal .
             return str_replace('.', '\.', $randomElement);
         }, $regex);
diff --git a/test/Faker/Provider/BaseTest.php b/test/Faker/Provider/BaseTest.php
index 9e1f8ef59f..3af3de211e 100644
--- a/test/Faker/Provider/BaseTest.php
+++ b/test/Faker/Provider/BaseTest.php
@@ -333,6 +333,7 @@ public function regexifyDataProvider()
             ['[aeiou]', 'basic character class'],
             ['[a-z]', 'character class range'],
             ['[a-z1-9]', 'multiple character class range'],
+            ['[a-z\-]{4}', 'character class range with quantifier and escaped character'],
             ['a*b+c?', 'single character quantifiers'],
             ['a{2}', 'brackets quantifiers'],
             ['a{2,3}', 'min-max brackets quantifiers'],