diff --git a/releasenotes.md b/releasenotes.md
index 12b5b7e9e..3d61f89b3 100644
--- a/releasenotes.md
+++ b/releasenotes.md
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 - Fix bug when creating bool vectors in certain cases.
 - Compiler assert when passing returning CT failure immediately rethrown #2689.
 - Converting between simd/non-simd bool vector would hit a compiler assert. #2691
+- `i<n>` suffixes were not caught when n < 8, causing an assert.
 
 ### Stdlib changes
 - Add `ThreadPool` join function to wait for all threads to finish in the pool without destroying the threads.
diff --git a/src/compiler/parse_expr.c b/src/compiler/parse_expr.c
index 5b57e1925..b38382468 100644
--- a/src/compiler/parse_expr.c
+++ b/src/compiler/parse_expr.c
@@ -1667,7 +1667,7 @@ EXIT:
 	Type *type_base = NULL;
 	if (type_bits)
 	{
-		if (type_bits < 0 || !is_power_of_two((uint64_t)type_bits) || type_bits > 128)
+		if (type_bits < 8 || !is_power_of_two((uint64_t)type_bits) || type_bits > 128)
 		{
 			PRINT_ERROR_AT(expr_int, "Integer type suffix should be i8, i16, i32, i64 or i128.");
 			return poisoned_expr;