From 9401175a2857091ee6b40b1ad25b073c0fa93d62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ajeem Khan K <ajeemkhank@Ajeems-MacBook-Air.local>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:20:53 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Preserve multichar option name in parser errors

---
 src/click/parser.py   | 13 +++++++++++++
 tests/test_options.py | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/click/parser.py b/src/click/parser.py
index 1ea1f7166e..45486d3dd8 100644
--- a/src/click/parser.py
+++ b/src/click/parser.py
@@ -490,6 +490,19 @@ def _process_opts(self, arg: str, state: _ParsingState) -> None:
             # short option code and will instead raise the no option
             # error.
             if arg[:2] not in self._opt_prefixes:
+                multichar_opt = max(
+                    (
+                        opt
+                        for opt in self._long_opt
+                        if _split_opt(opt)[0] == arg[:1] and arg.startswith(opt)
+                    ),
+                    default=None,
+                    key=len,
+                )
+
+                if multichar_opt is not None and multichar_opt != arg:
+                    raise NoSuchOption(multichar_opt, ctx=self.ctx)
+
                 self._match_short_opt(arg, state)
                 return
 
diff --git a/tests/test_options.py b/tests/test_options.py
index f198d10183..9e28b3c8d6 100644
--- a/tests/test_options.py
+++ b/tests/test_options.py
@@ -144,6 +144,17 @@ def cli():
     assert f"No such option: {unknown_flag}" in result.output
 
 
+def test_unknown_multichar_short_option_reports_full_option(runner):
+    @click.command()
+    @click.option("-dbg", is_flag=True)
+    def cli(dbg):
+        pass
+
+    result = runner.invoke(cli, ["-dbgwrong"])
+    assert result.exception
+    assert "No such option: -dbg" in result.output
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     ("value", "expect"),
     [