diff --git a/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestsPage.tsx b/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestsPage.tsx
index 2af8383bebcd..1c55213e7b38 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestsPage.tsx
+++ b/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestsPage.tsx
@@ -694,6 +694,8 @@ export function PullRequestsPage() {
     heldPullRequestsBySurface,
   } = pullRequestGroups({
     known: ordered?.key === filterKey ? ordered.entries : (listData?.entries ?? []),
+    // The baseline was read without typed qualifiers, and rows cannot be checked for `checks:`.
+    baseline: typedParsed.filters.checks === undefined ? baselineQuery.data?.entries : undefined,
     providers: baselineQuery.data?.providers ?? listData?.providers ?? [],
     viewers,
     involvement: search.involvement,
diff --git a/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/pullRequestList.logic.test.ts b/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/pullRequestList.logic.test.ts
index 123111ff6a35..fd52cfe7ede4 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/pullRequestList.logic.test.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/pullRequestList.logic.test.ts
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ import {
   reusePullRequestEntries,
   settlePullRequestOverrides,
 } from "./pullRequestList.logic";
+import { pullRequestGroups } from "./pullRequestListGroups.logic";
 import {
   readPullRequestListPreferences,
   writePullRequestListPreferences,
@@ -177,6 +178,43 @@ describe("ranking what a search found", () => {
       rankPullRequestMatches([mentioned, titled], "welcome wizard").map((entry) => entry.number),
     ).toEqual([1, 2]);
   });
+
+  it("keeps loaded partial-word matches the host's whole-word search missed, after its answer", () => {
+    const bilal = { login: "bilal", name: null, avatarUrl: null };
+    const hosted = row({ number: 1, title: "Notifications match the body text", author: bilal });
+    const toast = row({ number: 2, title: "Threads show a completed toast", author: bilal });
+    const toaster = row({ number: 3, title: "Toaster fixtures cover retries", author: bilal });
+    const theirs = row({ number: 4, title: "Toasted sidebar" });
+    const unrelated = row({ number: 5, title: "Cursor no longer adds attribution", author: bilal });
+
+    const { entries } = pullRequestGroups({
+      known: [hosted, toast],
+      baseline: [theirs, unrelated, toaster, toast],
+      providers: [
+        {
+          host: "github.com",
+          kind: SourceControlProviderKind.make("github"),
+          searchesOnHost: true,
+          projectCount: 1,
+          configured: true,
+          detail: null,
+        },
+      ],
+      viewers: VIEWERS,
+      involvement: "all",
+      localFilters: { author: "bilal" },
+      hasLocalFilters: true,
+      text: "toa",
+      answeredLocally: true,
+      baselineEmpty: false,
+      held: undefined,
+      authored: undefined,
+      reviewing: undefined,
+      partitionsWanted: false,
+    });
+
+    expect(entries.map((entry) => entry.number)).toEqual([1, 2, 3]);
+  });
 });
 
 describe("default merge-readiness ranking", () => {
diff --git a/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/pullRequestListGroups.logic.ts b/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/pullRequestListGroups.logic.ts
index 9a3bda738a28..31f02978c918 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/pullRequestListGroups.logic.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/pullRequestListGroups.logic.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import {
   partitionPullRequestsWithPriority,
   pullRequestEntryKey,
   pullRequestEntryViewer,
+  rankPullRequestMatches,
   type EnvironmentPullRequestEntry,
   type PullRequestPartitionsSnapshot,
 } from "./pullRequestList.logic";
@@ -25,6 +26,7 @@ export const pullRequestListEntryId = (target: Parameters<typeof pullRequestSurf
 /** The held rows narrowed to what the reader asked for, in the groups the list shows. */
 export function pullRequestGroups({
   known,
+  baseline,
   providers,
   viewers,
   involvement,
@@ -39,6 +41,8 @@ export function pullRequestGroups({
   partitionsWanted,
 }: {
   known: ReadonlyArray<EnvironmentPullRequestEntry>;
+  /** The text-free rows already loaded, or undefined when the typed filters cannot vet them. */
+  baseline: ReadonlyArray<EnvironmentPullRequestEntry> | undefined;
   providers: PullRequestListResult["providers"];
   viewers: PullRequestListResult["viewers"];
   involvement: PullRequestInvolvement;
@@ -56,22 +60,33 @@ export function pullRequestGroups({
     providers.flatMap((provider) => (provider.searchesOnHost ? [provider.host] : [])),
   );
 
-  const entries = (() => {
-    const involvementEntries = filterPullRequestsByInvolvement(known, viewers, involvement);
-    // Host text searches cover fields absent from rows, so do not narrow their matches locally.
-    // Filter text locally while results are pending or when the host has no text search.
-    const narrowedEntries = hasLocalFilters
+  const narrowRows = (rows: ReadonlyArray<EnvironmentPullRequestEntry>) => {
+    const involvementEntries = filterPullRequestsByInvolvement(rows, viewers, involvement);
+    return hasLocalFilters
       ? involvementEntries.filter((entry) =>
           matchesPullRequestFilters(entry, localFilters, pullRequestEntryViewer(entry, viewers)),
         )
       : involvementEntries;
+  };
+
+  const entries = (() => {
+    const narrowedEntries = narrowRows(known);
     if (text.length === 0) {
       return narrowedEntries.toSorted(comparePullRequestsByRecency);
     }
-    return narrowedEntries.filter(
+    // Host text searches cover fields absent from rows, so do not narrow their matches locally.
+    // Filter text locally while results are pending or when the host has no text search.
+    const matched = narrowedEntries.filter(
       (entry) =>
         (answeredLocally && searchingHosts.has(entry.host)) || matchesPullRequestQuery(entry, text),
     );
+    // Host search matches whole words, so it can miss loaded rows a partial word matches here.
+    // Those follow the host's ranked answer rather than reshuffling it.
+    const listed = new Set(matched.map(pullRequestEntryKey));
+    const missed = narrowRows(baseline ?? []).filter(
+      (entry) => !listed.has(pullRequestEntryKey(entry)) && matchesPullRequestQuery(entry, text),
+    );
+    return missed.length === 0 ? matched : [...matched, ...rankPullRequestMatches(missed, text)];
   })();
 
   const listedPullRequestTabStatuses: Record<string, PullRequestTabStatusSeed> = Object.fromEntries(