diff --git a/doc/whats_new/v1.1.rst b/doc/whats_new/v1.1.rst
index 1a9f773ce08df..a473908d8f1e7 100644
--- a/doc/whats_new/v1.1.rst
+++ b/doc/whats_new/v1.1.rst
@@ -46,13 +46,21 @@ Changelog
   :pr:`21032` by :user:`Guillaume Lemaitre <glemaitre>`.
 
 :mod:`sklearn.ensemble`
-...........................
+.......................
 
 - |Fix| Fixed a bug that could produce a segfault in rare cases for
   :class:`ensemble.HistGradientBoostingClassifier` and
   :class:`ensemble.HistGradientBoostingRegressor`.
   :pr:`21130` :user:`Christian Lorentzen <lorentzenchr>`.
 
+:mod:`sklearn.feature_extraction`
+.................................
+
+- |Fix| Fixed a bug in :class:`feature_extraction.CountVectorizer` and
+  :class:`feature_extraction.TfidfVectorizer` by raising an
+  error when 'min_idf' or 'max_idf' are floating-point numbers greater than 1.
+  :pr:`20752` by :user:`Alek Lefebvre <AlekLefebvre>`.
+
 :mod:`sklearn.linear_model`
 ...........................
 
diff --git a/sklearn/feature_extraction/tests/test_text.py b/sklearn/feature_extraction/tests/test_text.py
index 1de2dfa5b8121..6abd731b4559a 100644
--- a/sklearn/feature_extraction/tests/test_text.py
+++ b/sklearn/feature_extraction/tests/test_text.py
@@ -832,6 +832,31 @@ def test_vectorizer_min_df():
     assert len(vect.stop_words_) == 5
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "params, err_type, message",
+    (
+        ({"max_df": 2.0}, ValueError, "max_df == 2.0, must be <= 1.0."),
+        ({"min_df": 1.5}, ValueError, "min_df == 1.5, must be <= 1.0."),
+        ({"max_df": -2}, ValueError, "max_df == -2, must be >= 0."),
+        ({"min_df": -10}, ValueError, "min_df == -10, must be >= 0."),
+        ({"min_df": 3, "max_df": 2.0}, ValueError, "max_df == 2.0, must be <= 1.0."),
+        ({"min_df": 1.5, "max_df": 50}, ValueError, "min_df == 1.5, must be <= 1.0."),
+        ({"max_features": -10}, ValueError, "max_features == -10, must be >= 0."),
+        (
+            {"max_features": 3.5},
+            TypeError,
+            "max_features must be an instance of <class 'numbers.Integral'>, not <class"
+            " 'float'>",
+        ),
+    ),
+)
+def test_vectorizer_params_validation(params, err_type, message):
+    with pytest.raises(err_type, match=message):
+        test_data = ["abc", "dea", "eat"]
+        vect = CountVectorizer(**params, analyzer="char")
+        vect.fit(test_data)
+
+
 # TODO: Remove in 1.2 when get_feature_names is removed.
 @pytest.mark.filterwarnings("ignore::FutureWarning:sklearn")
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("get_names", ["get_feature_names", "get_feature_names_out"])
diff --git a/sklearn/feature_extraction/text.py b/sklearn/feature_extraction/text.py
index 02af3ff289ae2..a64bbc3ff3737 100644
--- a/sklearn/feature_extraction/text.py
+++ b/sklearn/feature_extraction/text.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 from ..preprocessing import normalize
 from ._hash import FeatureHasher
 from ._stop_words import ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS
-from ..utils.validation import check_is_fitted, check_array, FLOAT_DTYPES
+from ..utils.validation import check_is_fitted, check_array, FLOAT_DTYPES, check_scalar
 from ..utils.deprecation import deprecated
 from ..utils import _IS_32BIT
 from ..utils.fixes import _astype_copy_false
@@ -1120,15 +1120,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.stop_words = stop_words
         self.max_df = max_df
         self.min_df = min_df
-        if max_df < 0 or min_df < 0:
-            raise ValueError("negative value for max_df or min_df")
         self.max_features = max_features
-        if max_features is not None:
-            if not isinstance(max_features, numbers.Integral) or max_features <= 0:
-                raise ValueError(
-                    "max_features=%r, neither a positive integer nor None"
-                    % max_features
-                )
         self.ngram_range = ngram_range
         self.vocabulary = vocabulary
         self.binary = binary
@@ -1265,6 +1257,23 @@ def _count_vocab(self, raw_documents, fixed_vocab):
         X.sort_indices()
         return vocabulary, X
 
+    def _validate_params(self):
+        """Validation of min_df, max_df and max_features"""
+        super()._validate_params()
+
+        if self.max_features is not None:
+            check_scalar(self.max_features, "max_features", numbers.Integral, min_val=0)
+
+        if isinstance(self.min_df, numbers.Integral):
+            check_scalar(self.min_df, "min_df", numbers.Integral, min_val=0)
+        else:
+            check_scalar(self.min_df, "min_df", numbers.Real, min_val=0.0, max_val=1.0)
+
+        if isinstance(self.max_df, numbers.Integral):
+            check_scalar(self.max_df, "max_df", numbers.Integral, min_val=0)
+        else:
+            check_scalar(self.max_df, "max_df", numbers.Real, min_val=0.0, max_val=1.0)
+
     def fit(self, raw_documents, y=None):
         """Learn a vocabulary dictionary of all tokens in the raw documents.