Ensure that terms are not empty.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/search/querytransform/LowercasingSearcher.java b/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/search/querytransform/LowercasingSearcher.java
index d3916c4bfe1..ca7d0dbca0a 100644
--- a/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/search/querytransform/LowercasingSearcher.java
+++ b/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/search/querytransform/LowercasingSearcher.java
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ public abstract class LowercasingSearcher extends Searcher {
     }
 
     private boolean syntheticLowerCaseCheck(String indexName, IndexFacts.Session indexFacts, boolean isFromQuery) {
-        WordItem w = new WordItem("", indexName, isFromQuery);
+        WordItem w = new WordItem("not-used", indexName, isFromQuery);
         return shouldLowercase(w, indexFacts);
     }