diff --git a/extensions/typescript/src/features/completionItemProvider.ts b/extensions/typescript/src/features/completionItemProvider.ts
index 10529e46db8..ad18a7d8ce8 100644
--- a/extensions/typescript/src/features/completionItemProvider.ts
+++ b/extensions/typescript/src/features/completionItemProvider.ts
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ class MyCompletionItem extends CompletionItem {
 
 	constructor(entry: CompletionEntry) {
 		super(entry.name);
-		this.sortText = entry.sortText;
+		this.sortText = `${entry.name}-${entry.sortText}`; // tsserver sortText is "0" and "1" which is not good when comparing to snippets for instance
 		this.kind = MyCompletionItem.convertKind(entry.kind);
 	}