diff --git a/src/compiler/checker.ts b/src/compiler/checker.ts
index cc498cfe4d8..b2185766932 100644
--- a/src/compiler/checker.ts
+++ b/src/compiler/checker.ts
@@ -11244,13 +11244,7 @@ namespace ts {
         }
 
         function checkSpreadExpression(node: SpreadElement, contextualMapper?: TypeMapper): Type {
-            // It is usually not safe to call checkExpressionCached if we can be contextually typing.
-            // You can tell that we are contextually typing because of the contextualMapper parameter.
-            // While it is true that a spread element can have a contextual type, it does not do anything
-            // with this type. It is neither affected by it, nor does it propagate it to its operand.
-            // So the fact that contextualMapper is passed is not important, because the operand of a spread
-            // element is not contextually typed.
-            const arrayOrIterableType = checkExpressionCached(node.expression, contextualMapper);
+            const arrayOrIterableType = checkExpression(node.expression, contextualMapper);
             return checkIteratedTypeOrElementType(arrayOrIterableType, node.expression, /*allowStringInput*/ false);
         }