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How to Enable Did You Mean Suggestions

When a query looks misspelled, the Modern theme offers the corrected word: “Did you mean: jacket?” above the results. The toggle lives in Elevated › Site Search › Settings › Theme & Style when Modern is selected (“Suggest corrections for misspelled queries”) and is on by default.

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Step 1: Switch to the Modern Theme

Did You Mean is a Modern theme feature. Select Modern under Theme & Style.

Step 2: Check the Did You Mean Toggle

With Modern selected, Theme & Style shows the Did you mean toggle. Leave it on and save.

Step 3: Test with a Typo

Open the search and type a misspelling, such as jaket:

The search suggesting Did you mean: jacket? above results for a misspelled query

How It Works with Fuzzy Matching

The two features complement each other. Fuzzy matching quietly returns the right results despite the typo, at the strictness you set (see How to Configure Fuzzy Matching); Did You Mean shows the corrected word itself, so the visitor can run the clean query. With fuzzy matching off, the suggestion becomes the visitor’s main path back to the right results.

Troubleshooting

No suggestion appears for a typo. Suggestions come from the words in your indexed content; a term nothing in the index resembles produces no correction. Confirm the toggle is on and the misspelling is close to a real word on your site.

The suggestion shows in the admin preview but not on the site. Confirm the frontend runs the Modern theme and the page was reloaded after saving.

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