diff --git a/docs/about/changelog.md b/docs/about/changelog.md
index fe85ab218..7cd081e54 100644
--- a/docs/about/changelog.md
+++ b/docs/about/changelog.md
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ priorities and future plans.
 
 ## Work in progress
 
+- Correct named-unary operand precedence, so `! scalar @array % 2` evaluates
+  the modulo operation before its logical negation.
+
 - Preserve tied-scalar magic through `utf8::encode` and `utf8::decode`.
 
 - Preserve IO::Async thread callback results and accepted listener sockets on
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/perlonjava/frontend/parser/OperatorParser.java b/src/main/java/org/perlonjava/frontend/parser/OperatorParser.java
index 652b445f7..40644a97b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/perlonjava/frontend/parser/OperatorParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/perlonjava/frontend/parser/OperatorParser.java
@@ -857,19 +857,19 @@ public static OperatorNode parseSelect(Parser parser, LexerToken token, int curr
     static OperatorNode parseKeys(Parser parser, LexerToken token, int currentIndex) {
         String operator = token.text;
         Node operand;
-        // Handle operators with a single operand
-        // For scalar, values, keys, each: parse with precedence that includes postfix operators ([], {}, ->)
-        // Named unary operators have precedence between 20 and 21 in Perl
-        // This allows expressions like: values $hashref->%* or keys $hashref->%* or scalar((nil) x 3, 1)
+        // Handle operators with a single operand. `scalar` binds less tightly
+        // than arithmetic operators, so its operand includes expressions such
+        // as `scalar @array % 2`. keys/values/each retain their conventional
+        // single-aggregate operand boundary (`keys(%hash) * 4`).
         if (operator.equals("scalar") || operator.equals("values") || operator.equals("keys") || operator.equals("each")) {
             // parseExpression stops before an operator whose precedence is
-            // equal to the supplied floor. Named unary scalar binds across a
-            // following =~ / !~ (`scalar $s =~ /(...)/`) and must force that
-            // match into scalar context rather than letting an enclosing print
-            // put it in list context. The other named unary operators retain
-            // their existing match-level boundary.
-            int operandPrecedence = parser.getPrecedence("=~")
-                    - (operator.equals("scalar") ? 1 : 0);
+            // equal to the supplied floor. scalar needs the named-unary
+            // boundary above relational operators while admitting arithmetic
+            // and binding operators such as %, +, and =~. The aggregate
+            // operators must stop before those arithmetic operations.
+            int operandPrecedence = operator.equals("scalar")
+                    ? parser.getPrecedence("isa") + 1
+                    : parser.getPrecedence("=~");
             operand = parser.parseExpression(operandPrecedence);
             // Check if operand is null (no argument provided)
             if (operand == null) {
diff --git a/src/test/resources/unit/precedence.t b/src/test/resources/unit/precedence.t
index caab10a5f..272baaf90 100644
--- a/src/test/resources/unit/precedence.t
+++ b/src/test/resources/unit/precedence.t
@@ -13,6 +13,19 @@ ok(!($flush_mro->{a} != 3), '++ vs ->');
 my $result = -2**2;
 ok(!($result != -4), '** vs unary -');
 
+# Prefix ! must let a following named unary operator consume multiplicative
+# expressions.  This is the form used by Class::MakeMethods to test whether
+# a constructor returned an even-sized method/name list.
+my @even_results = ('new', sub {});
+my @odd_results = ('new', sub {}, 'extra');
+ok(! scalar @even_results % (1 + 1), '! scalar @array % divisor groups modulo with scalar');
+ok(!(! scalar @odd_results % (1 + 1)), '! scalar @array % divisor preserves the odd case');
+
+# keys retains its single-aggregate operand boundary: the multiplication is
+# applied to the key count, not to the hash operand.
+my %precedence_keys = (first => 1, second => 2);
+is(keys(%precedence_keys) * 4, 8, 'keys %hash stops before multiplication');
+
 # Test precedence of * vs +
 $result = 2 + 3 * 4;
 ok(!($result != 14), '* vs +');