diff --git a/tests/js/fixtures/partial/searchindex.js b/tests/js/fixtures/partial/searchindex.js
index 356386af8dd..18fa232b9b1 100644
--- a/tests/js/fixtures/partial/searchindex.js
+++ b/tests/js/fixtures/partial/searchindex.js
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Search.setIndex({"alltitles": {"sphinx_utils module": [[0, null]]}, "docnames": ["index"], "envversion": {"sphinx": 62, "sphinx.domains.c": 3, "sphinx.domains.changeset": 1, "sphinx.domains.citation": 1, "sphinx.domains.cpp": 9, "sphinx.domains.index": 1, "sphinx.domains.javascript": 3, "sphinx.domains.math": 2, "sphinx.domains.python": 4, "sphinx.domains.rst": 2, "sphinx.domains.std": 2}, "filenames": ["index.rst"], "indexentries": {}, "objects": {}, "objnames": {}, "objtypes": {}, "terms": {"also": 0, "ar": 0, "built": 0, "confirm": 0, "document": 0, "function": 0, "html": 0, "i": 0, "includ": 0, "input": 0, "javascript": 0, "known": 0, "match": 0, "partial": 0, "possibl": 0, "prefix": 0, "project": 0, "provid": 0, "restructuredtext": 0, "sampl": 0, "search": 0, "should": 0, "thi": 0, "titl": 0, "us": 0, "when": 0}, "titles": ["sphinx_utils module"], "titleterms": {"modul": 0, "sphinx_util": 0}})
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+Search.setIndex({"alltitles": {"sphinx_utils module": [[0, null]]}, "docnames": ["index"], "envversion": {"sphinx": 62, "sphinx.domains.c": 3, "sphinx.domains.changeset": 1, "sphinx.domains.citation": 1, "sphinx.domains.cpp": 9, "sphinx.domains.index": 1, "sphinx.domains.javascript": 3, "sphinx.domains.math": 2, "sphinx.domains.python": 4, "sphinx.domains.rst": 2, "sphinx.domains.std": 2}, "filenames": ["index.rst"], "indexentries": {}, "objects": {}, "objnames": {}, "objtypes": {}, "terms": {"ar": 0, "both": 0, "built": 0, "confirm": 0, "document": 0, "function": 0, "html": 0, "i": 0, "includ": 0, "input": 0, "javascript": 0, "match": 0, "partial": 0, "possibl": 0, "project": 0, "provid": 0, "restructuredtext": 0, "sampl": 0, "search": 0, "should": 0, "term": 0, "thi": 0, "titl": 0, "us": 0, "when": 0}, "titles": ["sphinx_utils module"], "titleterms": {"modul": 0, "sphinx_util": 0}})
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diff --git a/tests/js/roots/partial/index.rst b/tests/js/roots/partial/index.rst
index 6a9561b3994..23fba6dd3eb 100644
--- a/tests/js/roots/partial/index.rst
+++ b/tests/js/roots/partial/index.rst
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 sphinx_utils module
 ===================
 
-Partial (also known as "prefix") matches on document titles should be possible
+Partial matches on document titles and document terms should both be possible
 using the JavaScript search functionality included when HTML documentation
 projects are built.
 
diff --git a/tests/js/searchtools.js b/tests/js/searchtools.js
index a71047dae9f..16ab2c1e358 100644
--- a/tests/js/searchtools.js
+++ b/tests/js/searchtools.js
@@ -78,6 +78,24 @@ describe('Basic html theme search', function() {
       expect(Search.performTermsSearch(searchterms, excluded, terms, titleterms)).toEqual(hits);
     });
 
+    it('should partially-match within "possible" when in term index', function() {
+      eval(loadFixture("partial/searchindex.js"));
+
+      [_searchQuery, searchterms, excluded, ..._remainingItems] = Search._parseQuery('ossibl');
+      terms = Search._index.terms;
+      titleterms = Search._index.titleterms;
+
+      hits = [[
+        "index",
+        "sphinx_utils module",
+        "",
+        null,
+        2,
+        "index.rst"
+      ]];
+      expect(Search.performTermsSearch(searchterms, excluded, terms, titleterms)).toEqual(hits);
+    });
+
   });
 
   describe('aggregation of search results', function() {