diff --git a/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py b/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
index bc0404ea4b0..3c427fed561 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ def testSyntaxErrorOffset(self):
         check('x = "a', 1, 5)
         check('lambda x: x = 2', 1, 1)
         check('f{a + b + c}', 1, 2)
-        check('[file for str(file) in []\n])', 1, 11)
+        check('[file for str(file) in []\n])', 2, 2)
         check('[\nfile\nfor str(file)\nin\n[]\n]', 3, 5)
         check('[file for\n str(file) in []]', 2, 2)
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-05-04-01-01-04.bpo-43822.9VeCg0.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-05-04-01-01-04.bpo-43822.9VeCg0.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b8815cddf4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-05-04-01-01-04.bpo-43822.9VeCg0.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+The parser will prioritize tokenizer errors over custom syntax errors when
+raising exceptions. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Parser/pegen.c b/Parser/pegen.c
index e32b2710dbd..6080cec1489 100644
--- a/Parser/pegen.c
+++ b/Parser/pegen.c
@@ -1283,6 +1283,9 @@ _PyPegen_run_parser(Parser *p)
         reset_parser_state(p);
         _PyPegen_parse(p);
         if (PyErr_Occurred()) {
+            if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_SyntaxError)) {
+                _PyPegen_check_tokenizer_errors(p);
+            }
             return NULL;
         }
         if (p->fill == 0) {