diff --git a/compiler/noirc_frontend/src/elaborator/patterns.rs b/compiler/noirc_frontend/src/elaborator/patterns.rs
index 181f787ce08..0e9666bd686 100644
--- a/compiler/noirc_frontend/src/elaborator/patterns.rs
+++ b/compiler/noirc_frontend/src/elaborator/patterns.rs
@@ -134,6 +134,14 @@ impl Elaborator<'_> {
                     }
                 };
 
+                if fields.len() != field_types.len() {
+                    self.push_err(TypeCheckError::TupleMismatch {
+                        tuple_types: field_types.clone(),
+                        actual_count: fields.len(),
+                        location,
+                    });
+                }
+
                 let fields = vecmap(fields.into_iter().enumerate(), |(i, field)| {
                     let field_type = field_types.get(i).cloned().unwrap_or(Type::Error);
                     self.elaborate_pattern_mut(
diff --git a/compiler/noirc_frontend/src/hir/type_check/errors.rs b/compiler/noirc_frontend/src/hir/type_check/errors.rs
index 8c2c7150902..3996378460f 100644
--- a/compiler/noirc_frontend/src/hir/type_check/errors.rs
+++ b/compiler/noirc_frontend/src/hir/type_check/errors.rs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ use std::collections::BTreeSet;
 use std::rc::Rc;
 
 use acvm::FieldElement;
+use iter_extended::vecmap;
 use noirc_errors::CustomDiagnostic as Diagnostic;
 use noirc_errors::Location;
 use thiserror::Error;
@@ -249,6 +250,8 @@ pub enum TypeCheckError {
     /// This error is used for types like integers which have too many variants to enumerate
     #[error("Missing cases: `{typ}` is non-empty")]
     MissingManyCases { typ: String, location: Location },
+    #[error("Expected a tuple with {} elements, found one with {} elements", tuple_types.len(), actual_count)]
+    TupleMismatch { tuple_types: Vec<Type>, actual_count: usize, location: Location },
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
@@ -340,7 +343,8 @@ impl TypeCheckError {
             | TypeCheckError::UnreachableCase { location }
             | TypeCheckError::MissingCases { location, .. }
             | TypeCheckError::MissingManyCases { location, .. }
-            | TypeCheckError::NestedUnsafeBlock { location } => *location,
+            | TypeCheckError::NestedUnsafeBlock { location }
+            | TypeCheckError::TupleMismatch { location, .. } => *location,
 
             TypeCheckError::DuplicateNamedTypeArg { name: ident, .. }
             | TypeCheckError::NoSuchNamedTypeArg { name: ident, .. } => ident.location(),
@@ -726,6 +730,15 @@ impl<'a> From<&'a TypeCheckError> for Diagnostic {
                 let secondary = "Try adding a match-all pattern: `_`".to_string();
                 Diagnostic::simple_error(msg, secondary, *location)
             },
+            TypeCheckError::TupleMismatch { tuple_types, actual_count, location } => {
+                let msg = format!(
+                    "Expected a tuple with {} elements, found one with {} elements",
+                    tuple_types.len(),
+                    actual_count
+                );
+                let secondary = format!("The expression the tuple is assigned to has type `({})`", vecmap(tuple_types, ToString::to_string).join(","));
+                Diagnostic::simple_error(msg, secondary, *location)
+            }
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/test_programs/compile_failure/tuple_mismatch/Nargo.toml b/test_programs/compile_failure/tuple_mismatch/Nargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9e4b8b34d20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_programs/compile_failure/tuple_mismatch/Nargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+[package]
+name = "tuple_mismatch"
+type = "bin"
+authors = [""]
+compiler_version = ">=0.33.0"
+
+[dependencies]
diff --git a/test_programs/compile_failure/tuple_mismatch/src/main.nr b/test_programs/compile_failure/tuple_mismatch/src/main.nr
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5d1b2b9a65b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_programs/compile_failure/tuple_mismatch/src/main.nr
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+fn main() {
+    let (_x, _y) = (1, 2, 3);
+}
diff --git a/test_programs/compile_failure/tuple_mismatch/stderr.txt b/test_programs/compile_failure/tuple_mismatch/stderr.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..767d197e1c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_programs/compile_failure/tuple_mismatch/stderr.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+error: Expected a tuple with 3 elements, found one with 2 elements
+  ┌─ src/main.nr:2:9
+  │
+2 │     let (_x, _y) = (1, 2, 3);
+  │         -------- The expression the tuple is assigned to has type `(Field,Field,Field)`
+  │
+
+Aborting due to 1 previous error