diff --git a/pandas/core/series.py b/pandas/core/series.py
index 7f2039c998f53..f1217e97aef5d 100644
--- a/pandas/core/series.py
+++ b/pandas/core/series.py
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@
 from pandas.core.indexes.timedeltas import TimedeltaIndex
 from pandas.core.indexing import check_bool_indexer
 from pandas.core.internals import SingleBlockManager
+from pandas.core.internals.construction import sanitize_index
 from pandas.core.shared_docs import _shared_docs
 from pandas.core.sorting import ensure_key_mapped, nargsort
 from pandas.core.strings import StringMethods
@@ -319,17 +320,7 @@ def __init__(
                     data = [data]
                 index = ibase.default_index(len(data))
             elif is_list_like(data):
-
-                # a scalar numpy array is list-like but doesn't
-                # have a proper length
-                try:
-                    if len(index) != len(data):
-                        raise ValueError(
-                            f"Length of passed values is {len(data)}, "
-                            f"index implies {len(index)}."
-                        )
-                except TypeError:
-                    pass
+                sanitize_index(data, index)
 
             # create/copy the manager
             if isinstance(data, SingleBlockManager):
diff --git a/pandas/tests/extension/base/constructors.py b/pandas/tests/extension/base/constructors.py
index 5c9e5dcf3ae24..9dbfd2a5589c0 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/extension/base/constructors.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/extension/base/constructors.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ def test_dataframe_from_series(self, data):
         assert isinstance(result._mgr.blocks[0], ExtensionBlock)
 
     def test_series_given_mismatched_index_raises(self, data):
-        msg = "Length of passed values is 3, index implies 5"
+        msg = r"Length of values \(3\) does not match length of index \(5\)"
         with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=msg):
             pd.Series(data[:3], index=[0, 1, 2, 3, 4])
 
diff --git a/pandas/tests/series/test_constructors.py b/pandas/tests/series/test_constructors.py
index c7bd38bbd00b9..e35f37944e7da 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/series/test_constructors.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/series/test_constructors.py
@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ def test_constructor_index_mismatch(self, input):
         # GH 19342
         # test that construction of a Series with an index of different length
         # raises an error
-        msg = "Length of passed values is 3, index implies 4"
+        msg = r"Length of values \(3\) does not match length of index \(4\)"
         with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=msg):
             Series(input, index=np.arange(4))
 
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ def test_constructor_broadcast_list(self):
         # GH 19342
         # construction with single-element container and index
         # should raise
-        msg = "Length of passed values is 1, index implies 3"
+        msg = r"Length of values \(1\) does not match length of index \(3\)"
         with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=msg):
             Series(["foo"], index=["a", "b", "c"])