diff --git a/website/docusaurus.config.ts b/website/docusaurus.config.ts
index 6243170a6b..1c85d7693a 100644
--- a/website/docusaurus.config.ts
+++ b/website/docusaurus.config.ts
@@ -62,6 +62,14 @@ const config: Config = {
           /^user-guide\/skills\/bundled\//,
           /^user-guide\/skills\/optional\//,
         ],
+        // Exact-or-prefix matching only (default is edit distance 1).
+        // With fuzzy distance 1, "keet" matched "meetings"/"keep" (one
+        // edit away after stemming), and multi-word typo queries against
+        // our ~14 MB index could stall the single-threaded search worker
+        // for 25s+, backing up every subsequent keystroke's search until
+        // the bar appeared dead. Distance 0 keeps "word or its extension"
+        // semantics (keet -> keet*) and removes the pathological scans.
+        fuzzyMatchingDistance: 0,
       }),
     ],
   ],