diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/DefaultSearchContext.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/DefaultSearchContext.java
index de174c5e5048..36852b9f5b0e 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/DefaultSearchContext.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/DefaultSearchContext.java
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ final class DefaultSearchContext extends SearchContext {
             engineSearcher.getQueryCache(),
             engineSearcher.getQueryCachingPolicy(),
             lowLevelCancellation,
-            // use the search threadpool for now, TODO maybe we will change to a separate one
+            // use the search threadpool for now, TODO this will change to a separate one
             parallelize ? (EsThreadPoolExecutor) this.indexService.getThreadPool().executor(ThreadPool.Names.SEARCH) : null
         );
         releasables.addAll(List.of(engineSearcher, searcher));
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/internal/ContextIndexSearcher.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/internal/ContextIndexSearcher.java
index 54e2103fd923..c6434efd53a3 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/internal/ContextIndexSearcher.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/internal/ContextIndexSearcher.java
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ private ContextIndexSearcher(
         boolean wrapWithExitableDirectoryReader,
         ThreadPoolExecutor executor
     ) throws IOException {
-        // we need to pass the executor up so it can porentially be used as a sliceExecutor
+        // we need to pass the executor up so it can potentially be used as a sliceExecutor
         super(wrapWithExitableDirectoryReader ? new ExitableDirectoryReader((DirectoryReader) reader, cancellable) : reader, executor);
         setSimilarity(similarity);
         setQueryCache(queryCache);
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ public Weight createWeight(Query query, ScoreMode scoreMode, float boost) throws
 
     @Override
     protected LeafSlice[] slices(List<LeafReaderContext> leaves) {
-        return computeSlices(leaves, queueSizeBasedExecutor.threadPoolExecutor.getPoolSize(), MINIMUM_DOCS_PER_SLICE);
+        return computeSlices(leaves, ((ThreadPoolExecutor) getExecutor()).getPoolSize(), MINIMUM_DOCS_PER_SLICE);
     }
 
     /**