diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 53a9a06f2..6aba52c38 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Imports:
     digest,
     lgr,
     mlr3 (>= 0.20.0),
-    mlr3misc (>= 0.9.0),
+    mlr3misc (>= 0.16.0),
     paradox,
     R6,
     withr
diff --git a/R/po.R b/R/po.R
index e8c6315a3..7c23c44cf 100644
--- a/R/po.R
+++ b/R/po.R
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ po.PipeOp = function(.obj, ...) {
 
 #' @export
 po.character = function(.obj, ...) {
-  dictionary_sugar_inc_get(dict = mlr_pipeops, .key = .obj, ...)
+  dictionary_sugar_inc_get(dict = mlr_pipeops, .key = .obj, ..., .dicts_suggest = list("ppl()" = mlr_graphs))
 }
 
 #' @export
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ pos.NULL = function(.objs, ...) {
 
 #' @export
 pos.character = function(.objs, ...) {
-  dictionary_sugar_inc_mget(dict = mlr_pipeops, .keys = .objs, ...)
+  dictionary_sugar_inc_mget(dict = mlr_pipeops, .keys = .objs, ..., .dicts_suggest = list("ppls()" = mlr_graphs))
 }
 
 #' @export
diff --git a/R/ppl.R b/R/ppl.R
index 1548d25ce..374c4f17d 100644
--- a/R/ppl.R
+++ b/R/ppl.R
@@ -23,12 +23,12 @@
 #' gr = ppl("bagging", graph = po(lrn("regr.rpart")),
 #'   averager = po("regravg", collect_multiplicity = TRUE))
 ppl = function(.key, ...) {
-  dictionary_sugar_get(dict = mlr_graphs, .key = .key, ...)
+  dictionary_sugar_get(dict = mlr_graphs, .key = .key, ..., .dicts_suggest = list("po()" = mlr_pipeops))
 }
 
 #' @export
 #' @rdname ppl
 ppls = function(.keys, ...) {
   if (missing(.keys)) return(mlr_graphs)
-  map(.x = .keys, .f = dictionary_sugar_get, dict = mlr_graphs, ...)
+  map(.x = .keys, .f = dictionary_sugar_get, dict = mlr_graphs, ..., .dicts_suggest = list("pos()" = mlr_pipeops))
 }
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_po.R b/tests/testthat/test_po.R
index f52ea538a..eaff5c07f 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_po.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_po.R
@@ -217,3 +217,11 @@ test_that("Incrementing ids works", {
   xs = pos(c("pca_1", "pca_2"))
   assert_true(all(names(xs) == c("pca_1", "pca_2")))
 })
+
+test_that("po - dictionary suggest works", {
+
+  # test that correct dictionary is checked against
+  expect_error(po("robustify"), "ppl\\(\\): 'robustify'")
+  expect_error(pos("robustify"), "ppls\\(\\): 'robustify'")
+
+})
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_ppl.R b/tests/testthat/test_ppl.R
index 700eff726..0c1771dc9 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_ppl.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_ppl.R
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ test_that("mlr_graphs access works", {
 })
 
 
-test_that("mlr_pipeops multi-access works", {
+test_that("mlr_graphs multi-access works", {
 
   expect_equal(
     ppls("robustify"),
@@ -73,3 +73,11 @@ test_that("mlr3book authors don't sleepwalk through life", {
   bmr = benchmark(benchmark_grid(tasks, learners, rsmp("cv", folds = 2)))
 
 })
+
+test_that("ppl - dictionary suggest works", {
+
+  # test that correct dictionary is checked against
+  expect_error(ppl("adas"), "po\\(\\): 'adas'")
+  expect_error(ppls("adas"), "pos\\(\\): 'adas'")
+
+})