diff --git a/milli/src/search/new/matches/matching_words.rs b/milli/src/search/new/matches/matching_words.rs
index e9a728a01..92248345e 100644
--- a/milli/src/search/new/matches/matching_words.rs
+++ b/milli/src/search/new/matches/matching_words.rs
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ pub(crate) mod tests {
 
     use charabia::{TokenKind, TokenizerBuilder};
 
-    use super::super::super::located_query_terms_from_string;
+    use super::super::super::located_query_terms_from_tokens;
     use super::*;
     use crate::index::tests::TempIndex;
 
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ pub(crate) mod tests {
         let mut ctx = SearchContext::new(&temp_index, &rtxn);
         let tokenizer = TokenizerBuilder::new().build();
         let tokens = tokenizer.tokenize("split this world");
-        let query_terms = located_query_terms_from_string(&mut ctx, tokens, None).unwrap();
+        let query_terms = located_query_terms_from_tokens(&mut ctx, tokens, None).unwrap();
         let matching_words = MatchingWords::new(ctx, query_terms);
 
         assert_eq!(
diff --git a/milli/src/search/new/matches/mod.rs b/milli/src/search/new/matches/mod.rs
index 0db2c3660..1974ae431 100644
--- a/milli/src/search/new/matches/mod.rs
+++ b/milli/src/search/new/matches/mod.rs
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ mod tests {
     use charabia::TokenizerBuilder;
     use matching_words::tests::temp_index_with_documents;
 
-    use super::super::located_query_terms_from_string;
+    use super::super::located_query_terms_from_tokens;
     use super::*;
     use crate::SearchContext;
 
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ mod tests {
         pub fn new_test(mut ctx: SearchContext, query: &'a str) -> Self {
             let tokenizer = TokenizerBuilder::new().build();
             let tokens = tokenizer.tokenize(query);
-            let query_terms = located_query_terms_from_string(&mut ctx, tokens, None).unwrap();
+            let query_terms = located_query_terms_from_tokens(&mut ctx, tokens, None).unwrap();
             let matching_words = MatchingWords::new(ctx, query_terms);
             Self::new(matching_words, TokenizerBuilder::new().build())
         }
diff --git a/milli/src/search/new/mod.rs b/milli/src/search/new/mod.rs
index 2faf20a1d..0ba5613b5 100644
--- a/milli/src/search/new/mod.rs
+++ b/milli/src/search/new/mod.rs
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ use interner::{DedupInterner, Interner};
 pub use logger::visual::VisualSearchLogger;
 pub use logger::{DefaultSearchLogger, SearchLogger};
 use query_graph::{QueryGraph, QueryNode};
-use query_term::{located_query_terms_from_string, LocatedQueryTerm, Phrase, QueryTerm};
+use query_term::{located_query_terms_from_tokens, LocatedQueryTerm, Phrase, QueryTerm};
 use ranking_rules::{
     BoxRankingRule, PlaceholderQuery, RankingRule, RankingRuleOutput, RankingRuleQueryTrait,
 };
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ pub fn execute_search(
         let tokenizer = tokbuilder.build();
         let tokens = tokenizer.tokenize(query);
 
-        let query_terms = located_query_terms_from_string(ctx, tokens, words_limit)?;
+        let query_terms = located_query_terms_from_tokens(ctx, tokens, words_limit)?;
         if query_terms.is_empty() {
             // Do a placeholder search instead
             None
diff --git a/milli/src/search/new/query_term/mod.rs b/milli/src/search/new/query_term/mod.rs
index 5f1a45d83..a8e121094 100644
--- a/milli/src/search/new/query_term/mod.rs
+++ b/milli/src/search/new/query_term/mod.rs
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ use std::ops::RangeInclusive;
 use compute_derivations::partially_initialized_term_from_word;
 use either::Either;
 pub use ntypo_subset::NTypoTermSubset;
-pub use parse_query::{located_query_terms_from_string, make_ngram, number_of_typos_allowed};
+pub use parse_query::{located_query_terms_from_tokens, make_ngram, number_of_typos_allowed};
 pub use phrase::Phrase;
 
 use super::interner::{DedupInterner, Interned};
diff --git a/milli/src/search/new/query_term/parse_query.rs b/milli/src/search/new/query_term/parse_query.rs
index 734938551..dc317a0fb 100644
--- a/milli/src/search/new/query_term/parse_query.rs
+++ b/milli/src/search/new/query_term/parse_query.rs
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ use super::*;
 use crate::{Result, SearchContext, MAX_WORD_LENGTH};
 
 /// Convert the tokenised search query into a list of located query terms.
-// TODO: checking if the positions are correct for phrases, separators, ngrams
-pub fn located_query_terms_from_string(
+pub fn located_query_terms_from_tokens(
     ctx: &mut SearchContext,
     query: NormalizedTokenIter<&[u8]>,
     words_limit: Option<usize>,