diff --git a/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/CommandCompletion/CompletionCompleters.cs b/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/CommandCompletion/CompletionCompleters.cs
index fe3802f859..d816892bd7 100644
--- a/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/CommandCompletion/CompletionCompleters.cs
+++ b/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/CommandCompletion/CompletionCompleters.cs
@@ -8591,6 +8591,12 @@ namespace System.Management.Automation
             return false;
         }
 
+        private static readonly SearchValues<char> s_defaultCharsToCheck = SearchValues.Create("$`");
+        private static readonly SearchValues<char> s_escapeCharsToCheck = SearchValues.Create("$[]`");
+
+        private static bool ContainsCharsToCheck(ReadOnlySpan<char> text, bool escape) 
+            => text.ContainsAny(escape ? s_escapeCharsToCheck : s_defaultCharsToCheck);
+
         private static bool CompletionRequiresQuotes(string completion, bool escape)
         {
             // If the tokenizer sees the completion as more than two tokens, or if there is some error, then
@@ -8600,18 +8606,13 @@ namespace System.Management.Automation
             ParseError[] errors;
             Language.Parser.ParseInput(completion, out tokens, out errors);
 
-            char[] charToCheck = escape ? new[] { '$', '[', ']', '`' } : new[] { '$', '`' };
-
             // Expect no errors and 2 tokens (1 is for our completion, the other is eof)
             // Or if the completion is a keyword, we ignore the errors
             bool requireQuote = !(errors.Length == 0 && tokens.Length == 2);
             if ((!requireQuote && tokens[0] is StringToken) ||
                 (tokens.Length == 2 && (tokens[0].TokenFlags & TokenFlags.Keyword) != 0))
             {
-                requireQuote = false;
-                var value = tokens[0].Text;
-                if (value.IndexOfAny(charToCheck) != -1)
-                    requireQuote = true;
+                requireQuote = ContainsCharsToCheck(tokens[0].Text, escape);
             }
 
             return requireQuote;