diff --git a/code/functions/search-query/api/java/nu/marginalia/api/searchquery/model/results/ResultRankingContext.java b/code/functions/search-query/api/java/nu/marginalia/api/searchquery/model/results/ResultRankingContext.java
index 9052345a..01c017f0 100644
--- a/code/functions/search-query/api/java/nu/marginalia/api/searchquery/model/results/ResultRankingContext.java
+++ b/code/functions/search-query/api/java/nu/marginalia/api/searchquery/model/results/ResultRankingContext.java
@@ -3,11 +3,17 @@ package nu.marginalia.api.searchquery.model.results;
 import lombok.ToString;
 import nu.marginalia.api.searchquery.model.compiled.CqDataInt;
 
+import java.util.BitSet;
+
 @ToString
 public class ResultRankingContext {
     private final int docCount;
     public final ResultRankingParameters params;
 
+
+    public final BitSet regularMask;
+    public final BitSet ngramsMask;
+
     /** CqDataInt associated with frequency information of the terms in the query
      * in the full index.  The dataset is indexed by the compiled query. */
     public final CqDataInt fullCounts;
@@ -18,11 +24,18 @@ public class ResultRankingContext {
 
     public ResultRankingContext(int docCount,
                                 ResultRankingParameters params,
+                                BitSet ngramsMask,
                                 CqDataInt fullCounts,
                                 CqDataInt prioCounts)
     {
         this.docCount = docCount;
         this.params = params;
+
+        this.ngramsMask = ngramsMask;
+
+        this.regularMask = new BitSet(ngramsMask.length());
+        this.regularMask.xor(ngramsMask);
+
         this.fullCounts = fullCounts;
         this.priorityCounts = prioCounts;
     }
diff --git a/code/index/java/nu/marginalia/index/IndexGrpcService.java b/code/index/java/nu/marginalia/index/IndexGrpcService.java
index 3eb2f5d7..50fb1eb8 100644
--- a/code/index/java/nu/marginalia/index/IndexGrpcService.java
+++ b/code/index/java/nu/marginalia/index/IndexGrpcService.java
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import io.prometheus.client.Histogram;
 import it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.longs.LongArrayList;
 import lombok.SneakyThrows;
 import nu.marginalia.api.searchquery.*;
+import nu.marginalia.api.searchquery.model.compiled.CompiledQuery;
 import nu.marginalia.api.searchquery.model.compiled.CompiledQueryLong;
 import nu.marginalia.api.searchquery.model.compiled.CqDataInt;
 import nu.marginalia.api.searchquery.model.query.SearchSpecification;
@@ -204,7 +205,9 @@ public class IndexGrpcService extends IndexApiGrpc.IndexApiImplBase {
             return new SearchResultSet(List.of());
         }
 
-        ResultRankingContext rankingContext = createRankingContext(params.rankingParams, params.compiledQueryIds);
+        ResultRankingContext rankingContext = createRankingContext(params.rankingParams,
+                params.compiledQuery,
+                params.compiledQueryIds);
 
         var queryExecution = new QueryExecution(rankingContext, params.fetchSize);
 
@@ -415,20 +418,28 @@ public class IndexGrpcService extends IndexApiGrpc.IndexApiImplBase {
     }
 
     private ResultRankingContext createRankingContext(ResultRankingParameters rankingParams,
+                                                      CompiledQuery<String> compiledQuery,
                                                       CompiledQueryLong compiledQueryIds)
     {
 
         int[] full = new int[compiledQueryIds.size()];
         int[] prio = new int[compiledQueryIds.size()];
 
+        BitSet ngramsMask = new BitSet(compiledQuery.size());
+
         for (int idx = 0; idx < compiledQueryIds.size(); idx++) {
             long id = compiledQueryIds.at(idx);
             full[idx] = index.getTermFrequency(id);
             prio[idx] = index.getTermFrequencyPrio(id);
+
+            if (compiledQuery.at(idx).contains("_")) {
+                ngramsMask.set(idx);
+            }
         }
 
         return new ResultRankingContext(index.getTotalDocCount(),
                 rankingParams,
+                ngramsMask,
                 new CqDataInt(full),
                 new CqDataInt(prio));
     }
diff --git a/code/index/java/nu/marginalia/ranking/results/ResultValuator.java b/code/index/java/nu/marginalia/ranking/results/ResultValuator.java
index 4d257349..d233651b 100644
--- a/code/index/java/nu/marginalia/ranking/results/ResultValuator.java
+++ b/code/index/java/nu/marginalia/ranking/results/ResultValuator.java
@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ public class ResultValuator {
 
         double bestTcf = rankingParams.tcfWeight * termCoherenceFactor.calculate(wordMeta);
 
-        double bestBM25F = rankingParams.bm25FullWeight * wordMeta.root.visit(new Bm25FullGraphVisitor(rankingParams.fullParams, wordMeta.data, length, ctx));
+        double bestBM25F = rankingParams.bm25FullWeight * wordMeta.root.visit(Bm25FullGraphVisitor.forRegular(rankingParams.fullParams, wordMeta.data, length, ctx));
+        double bestBM25N = 0.25 * rankingParams.bm25FullWeight * wordMeta.root.visit(Bm25FullGraphVisitor.forNgrams(rankingParams.fullParams, wordMeta.data, length, ctx));
         double bestBM25P = rankingParams.bm25PrioWeight * wordMeta.root.visit(new Bm25PrioGraphVisitor(rankingParams.prioParams, wordMeta.data, ctx));
 
         double overallPartPositive = Math.max(0, overallPart);
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ public class ResultValuator {
 
         // Renormalize to 0...15, where 0 is the best possible score;
         // this is a historical artifact of the original ranking function
-        return normalize(1.5 * bestTcf + bestBM25F + bestBM25P + overallPartPositive, overallPartNegative);
+        return normalize(1.5 * bestTcf + bestBM25F + bestBM25P + bestBM25N + overallPartPositive, overallPartNegative);
     }
 
     private double calculateQualityPenalty(int size, int quality, ResultRankingParameters rankingParams) {
diff --git a/code/index/java/nu/marginalia/ranking/results/factors/Bm25FullGraphVisitor.java b/code/index/java/nu/marginalia/ranking/results/factors/Bm25FullGraphVisitor.java
index 9c46261d..4105ed6b 100644
--- a/code/index/java/nu/marginalia/ranking/results/factors/Bm25FullGraphVisitor.java
+++ b/code/index/java/nu/marginalia/ranking/results/factors/Bm25FullGraphVisitor.java
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import nu.marginalia.api.searchquery.model.results.Bm25Parameters;
 import nu.marginalia.api.searchquery.model.results.ResultRankingContext;
 import nu.marginalia.model.idx.WordMetadata;
 
+import java.util.BitSet;
 import java.util.List;
 
 public class Bm25FullGraphVisitor implements CqExpression.DoubleVisitor {
@@ -19,15 +20,33 @@ public class Bm25FullGraphVisitor implements CqExpression.DoubleVisitor {
     private final int docCount;
     private final int length;
 
-    public Bm25FullGraphVisitor(Bm25Parameters bm25Parameters,
+    private final BitSet mask;
+
+    private Bm25FullGraphVisitor(Bm25Parameters bm25Parameters,
                                 CqDataLong wordMetaData,
                                 int length,
+                                BitSet mask,
                                 ResultRankingContext ctx) {
         this.length = length;
         this.bm25Parameters = bm25Parameters;
         this.docCount = ctx.termFreqDocCount();
         this.wordMetaData = wordMetaData;
         this.frequencies = ctx.fullCounts;
+        this.mask = mask;
+    }
+
+    public static Bm25FullGraphVisitor forRegular(Bm25Parameters bm25Parameters,
+                                                  CqDataLong wordMetaData,
+                                                  int length,
+                                                  ResultRankingContext ctx) {
+        return new Bm25FullGraphVisitor(bm25Parameters, wordMetaData, length, ctx.regularMask, ctx);
+    }
+
+    public static Bm25FullGraphVisitor forNgrams(Bm25Parameters bm25Parameters,
+                                                 CqDataLong wordMetaData,
+                                                 int length,
+                                                 ResultRankingContext ctx) {
+        return new Bm25FullGraphVisitor(bm25Parameters, wordMetaData, length, ctx.ngramsMask, ctx);
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -50,6 +69,10 @@ public class Bm25FullGraphVisitor implements CqExpression.DoubleVisitor {
 
     @Override
     public double onLeaf(int idx) {
+        if (!mask.get(idx)) {
+            return 0;
+        }
+
         double count = Long.bitCount(WordMetadata.decodePositions(wordMetaData.get(idx)));
 
         int freq = frequencies.get(idx);