diff --git a/muted-tests.yml b/muted-tests.yml
index fb61bb7a02f88..46444ef7094ab 100644
--- a/muted-tests.yml
+++ b/muted-tests.yml
@@ -246,6 +246,9 @@ tests:
 - class: org.elasticsearch.xpack.inference.InferenceRestIT
   method: test {p0=inference/30_semantic_text_inference/Calculates embeddings using the default ELSER 2 endpoint}
   issue: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/116542
+- class: org.elasticsearch.compute.lucene.LuceneQueryExpressionEvaluatorTests
+  method: testTermQuery
+  issue: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/116879
 
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