diff --git a/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-engine.test.ts b/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-engine.test.ts
index 2334f217969..f52213857c2 100644
--- a/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-engine.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-engine.test.ts
@@ -66,6 +66,18 @@ describe('the route ladder tries phrase, then AND, then repair, then OR', () =>
     expect(ids(result).sort()).toEqual(['1', '2'])
   })
 
+  it('keeps the stop words a repaired prose phrase was typed with', async () => {
+    const { db, engine } = await open('ss-engine-typo-phrase')
+    // Two copies, so the repair only suggests a term the index really holds.
+    addSyntheticSession(db, { id: 1, text: 'relay is dropping frames' })
+    addSyntheticSession(db, { id: 2, text: 'dropping frames again here' })
+    // Repairing the body alone would re-plan `relay dropping frames`, which no
+    // phrase in the index can match, and the answer would fall to AND.
+    const result = engine.search({ query: 'relay is droppng frames' })
+    expect(result.planner.route).toBe('typo+phrase')
+    expect(ids(result)).toEqual(['1'])
+  })
+
   it('keeps every term a repaired literal was typed with', async () => {
     const { db, engine } = await open('ss-engine-typo-literal')
     addSyntheticSession(db, { id: 1, text: 'parseJson the data' })
diff --git a/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-retrieval.ts b/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-retrieval.ts
index 8c6f2c183a9..f4a963d37b3 100644
--- a/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-retrieval.ts
+++ b/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-retrieval.ts
@@ -180,20 +180,28 @@ export class SessionSearchRetrieval {
   ): SessionSearchQueryPlan | null {
     const typoRepair = this.typoRepair
     let changed = false
-    const body = plan.body.map((term) => {
+    // Only the body is a candidate for a correction, but the re-plan is fed the
+    // tokens as typed: re-planning the body alone would hand the phrase rung a
+    // sentence with its stop words already gone, and `relay dropping frames`
+    // cannot match the `relay is dropping frames` that is in the transcript.
+    const repairable = new Set(plan.body.map((term) => term.toLowerCase()))
+    const phrase = plan.phrase.map((token) => {
+      if (!repairable.has(token.toLowerCase())) {
+        return token
+      }
       // Repaired inside the scope the search will run in, so a spelling only
       // tool output carries neither suppresses a repair nor becomes one.
-      const fix = typoRepair.correct(term, scope)
-      if (fix && fix !== term.toLowerCase()) {
+      const fix = typoRepair.correct(token, scope)
+      if (fix && fix !== token.toLowerCase()) {
         changed = true
         return fix
       }
-      return term
+      return token
     })
     // The repair changes spellings, not the query's character: the re-plan is
     // told what the original decided so a corrected literal keeps every term it
     // was typed with.
-    return changed ? planSessionSearchQuery(body.join(' '), plan.literal) : null
+    return changed ? planSessionSearchQuery(phrase.join(' '), plan.literal) : null
   }
 
   /**