diff --git a/.changeset/angry-eggs-rhyme.md b/.changeset/angry-eggs-rhyme.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3c69d47d7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/angry-eggs-rhyme.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+"@pnpm/resolve-dependencies": patch
+"pnpm": patch
+---
+
+Fix an error with peer resolutions, which was happening when there was a circular dependency and another dependency that had the name of the circular dependency as a substring.
diff --git a/packages/resolve-dependencies/src/resolvePeers.ts b/packages/resolve-dependencies/src/resolvePeers.ts
index 8533ca5cff..24550176b8 100644
--- a/packages/resolve-dependencies/src/resolvePeers.ts
+++ b/packages/resolve-dependencies/src/resolvePeers.ts
@@ -334,17 +334,17 @@ function getPreviouslyResolvedChildren<T extends PartialResolvedPackage> (nodeId
 
   if (!ownId || !parentIds.includes(ownId)) return allChildren
 
-  const nodeIdChunks = parentIds.join('>').split(ownId)
+  const nodeIdChunks = parentIds.join('>').split(`>${ownId}>`)
   nodeIdChunks.pop()
   nodeIdChunks.reduce((accNodeId, part) => {
-    accNodeId += `${part}${ownId}`
+    accNodeId += `>${part}>${ownId}`
     const parentNode = dependenciesTree[`${accNodeId}>`]
     Object.assign(
       allChildren,
       typeof parentNode.children === 'function' ? parentNode.children() : parentNode.children
     )
     return accNodeId
-  }, '>')
+  }, '')
   return allChildren
 }