1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/flyspell.el b/lisp/textmodes/flyspell.el
index 0f0394ad4ea..a4d77213aec 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/flyspell.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/flyspell.el
@@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@ The buffer to mark them in is `flyspell-large-region-buffer'."
                           ;; Detect when WORD can't be checked properly
                           ;; because flyspell-get-word finds
                           ;; just part of it, and treat that as ok.
-                          (if (< (length (flyspell-get-word nil))
+                          (if (< (length (car (flyspell-get-word nil)))
                                  (length word))
                               nil
                             (flyspell-word))))