Etsy search hack, stops spell correction

[#1]

So from a post about Etsy correcting spelling unnecessarily and ruining search results I discovered the simplest trick to force Etsy to give the results you searched for instead of the results if "thinks" you meant.

Place a period after any word it corrected and it will stop it from changing it.

I haven't extensively tested but the post that lead to this was about "fops" getting changed to "flops" which I found "fop" also gets changed to "for". A second test whets the word "droll" is changed to "doll".

The solution

Fop.

Fops.

Droll.

A period after the word, even if its the middle word of the search, seems to maintain the user's original spelling. I know Etsy changing the words is extremely frustrating and hope this helps a lot of people get more out of search.

Please feel free to test and share results here if this is universal across search or if it just worked in the few cases I tested. Hopefully this is a proper workaround for unwanted spelling correction.

[VibeEnvy · Accepted solution]

I stand corrected on my last comment, it is not changing the spelling in the search box but instead it's acting as if it had, so now it's just ignoring the spelling making the searcher unaware that it is ignoring the words you actually typed.

searching for "droll" maintained it's correct spelling "in the search box" but all the results were for dolls. I had to use the period trick to make it show results for the correct word.

Wonder if the tech team took notice and gave the "appearance" that they "fixed" the spelling correction issue (without actually fixing anything).

[SewlyButtons]

@VibeEnvy 
Sometimes I wonder if etsy even knows how they've programmed search behaviour???
Your period tip does work for some words... not for others. Who the hell knows what that's all about?  But I'm glad you shared it, it's still a good useful workaround!
It's a shame that we have to keep coming up with workarounds to make what doesn't work in etsy function a little bit better..
Just keep slogging!!!

[RueDeLouvain]

Thank you so much for sharing, that's very useful! I often research vintage items for my shop and some searches drive me nuts with the Etsy search engine insisting it knows better.

[ChillwolfArt]

@VibeEnvy  Thank You for sharing this tip...Bumpity Bump Bump!

[VibeEnvy]

You're welcome. I wish etsy would allow editing posts so I could update with follow up findings, like how it seems they have stopped correcting the spelling in the search box but are now showing results "as if" they corrected the spelling, like now its shadow correcting so you don't even know it's searching the wrong word until you realize all the results are for a slightly different word, and then have to use this trick to get the proper results. Really frustrating when the search behavior changes suddenly just to give the impression its working when it really isnt. And I have to hope for people to dig through all the comments for the one that addresses new behavior that developed after initially discovering the workaround.

But then again, editing posts is a completely normal and logical thing to allow, so of course that's not an available function since this forum is related to etsy where nothing actually works like it should lol.