diff --git a/modules/suggest/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/spell/DirectSpellChecker.java b/modules/suggest/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/spell/DirectSpellChecker.java
index b91ea35f197..b8558e2f92d 100644
--- a/modules/suggest/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/spell/DirectSpellChecker.java
+++ b/modules/suggest/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/spell/DirectSpellChecker.java
@@ -376,6 +376,7 @@ public class DirectSpellChecker {
         UnicodeUtil.UTF8toUTF16(s.term, spare);
         s.termAsString = spare.toString();
       }
+      suggestion.string = s.termAsString;
       suggestion.score = s.score;
       suggestion.freq = s.docfreq;
       suggestions[index--] = suggestion;