diff --git a/packages/cozy-dataproxy-lib/src/search/SearchEngine.ts b/packages/cozy-dataproxy-lib/src/search/SearchEngine.ts
index 788b789470..0164a5ecf7 100644
--- a/packages/cozy-dataproxy-lib/src/search/SearchEngine.ts
+++ b/packages/cozy-dataproxy-lib/src/search/SearchEngine.ts
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ export class SearchEngine {
     const fieldsToIndex = SEARCH_SCHEMA[doctype]
 
     const flexsearchIndex = new FlexSearch.Document<CozyDoc, true>({
-      tokenize: 'forward',
+      tokenize: 'reverse', // See https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch?tab=readme-ov-file#tokenizer
       encode: getSearchEncoder(),
       // @ts-expect-error minlength is not described by Flexsearch types but exists
       minlength: 2,