diff --git a/lib/elixir/lib/module/types/descr.ex b/lib/elixir/lib/module/types/descr.ex
index 5bee8403ed..8892aca496 100644
--- a/lib/elixir/lib/module/types/descr.ex
+++ b/lib/elixir/lib/module/types/descr.ex
@@ -5256,6 +5256,17 @@ defmodule Module.Types.Descr do
 
   # Takes a static tuple type and removes an index from it.
   defp tuple_delete_static(%{tuple: bdd}, index) do
+    # Restrict to tuples that actually have `index` before projecting. Callers
+    # already guarantee this (via the is_proper_size? check), so the intersection
+    # is a semantic no-op, but it makes the element at `index` explicit in the
+    # positive literals. Without it, an open literal whose size lower bound is
+    # only carried by negations (e.g. {...} \ {} \ {term()}) projects that index
+    # to term_or_optional(); the optional marker then pairs with the full
+    # remaining bdd and the result over-approximates (e.g. admits the empty
+    # tuple), losing layout. This is the same optional-marker imprecision the
+    # projection machinery exhibits for tuple_fetch.
+    bdd = tuple_intersection(bdd, tuple_new(:open, List.duplicate(term(), index + 1)))
+
     bdd =
       bdd
       |> tuple_bdd_to_dnf_with_negations()
diff --git a/lib/elixir/test/elixir/module/types/descr_test.exs b/lib/elixir/test/elixir/module/types/descr_test.exs
index 70adcf749e..504a4e7f1a 100644
--- a/lib/elixir/test/elixir/module/types/descr_test.exs
+++ b/lib/elixir/test/elixir/module/types/descr_test.exs
@@ -2000,6 +2000,28 @@ defmodule Module.Types.DescrTest do
       assert dynamic(opt_union(tuple(), integer()))
              |> tuple_delete_at(1)
              |> equal?(dynamic(tuple_of_size_at_least(1)))
+
+      # The result must not depend on the representation. A size lower bound
+      # carried only by negations ({...} \ {} \ {term()} == open_tuple([term(),
+      # term()])) must delete to the same type as the canonical open tuple and
+      # must not over-approximate by admitting shorter tuples (e.g. the empty
+      # tuple).
+      canonical = open_tuple([term(), term()])
+
+      by_negation =
+        open_tuple([])
+        |> opt_difference(tuple([]))
+        |> opt_difference(tuple([term()]))
+
+      assert equal?(canonical, by_negation)
+
+      assert tuple_delete_at(by_negation, 0)
+             |> equal?(tuple_delete_at(canonical, 0))
+
+      assert tuple_delete_at(by_negation, 0)
+             |> equal?(open_tuple([term()]))
+
+      refute subtype?(tuple([]), tuple_delete_at(by_negation, 0))
     end
 
     test "tuple_insert_at" do