diff --git a/src/plugins/qtsupport/baseqtversion.cpp b/src/plugins/qtsupport/baseqtversion.cpp
index 09a3531855d..06e8c9c2d32 100644
--- a/src/plugins/qtsupport/baseqtversion.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/qtsupport/baseqtversion.cpp
@@ -931,6 +931,7 @@ QString BaseQtVersion::findQtBinary(Binaries binary) const
     case Linguist:
         if (HostOsInfo::isMacHost())
             possibleCommands << QLatin1String("Linguist.app/Contents/MacOS/Linguist");
+        else
             possibleCommands << HostOsInfo::withExecutableSuffix(QLatin1String("linguist"));
         break;
     case Uic: