diff --git a/crates/milli/src/search/new/matches/mod.rs b/crates/milli/src/search/new/matches/mod.rs
index 80e3ec7b2..c1fb18cfa 100644
--- a/crates/milli/src/search/new/matches/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/milli/src/search/new/matches/mod.rs
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ impl<'t, 'tokenizer> Matcher<'t, 'tokenizer, '_, '_> {
                     last_match_last_token_position_plus_one
                 } else {
                     // we have matched the end of possible tokens, there's nothing to advance
-                    tokens.len() - 1
+                    tokens.len()
                 }
             };