I have an index that when I search (in the Algolia console) for “media”, it finds and highlights “medium” first and foremost. I have no synonyms for media or medium. I realize the similarities in the word but “media” companies are not “medium” companies. How do I turn this off? 
Hi @jimb thanks for asking this! I understand the frustration, those terms are definitely not equal in your use case.
This is caused by the ignorePlurals setting: once enabled, it disables plurals for all supported languages.
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If you don’t want to treat any plural as equivalent to the singular form, simply disable this feature.
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If you want to ignore plurals but only for a specific, non-english language: set ignorePlurals with the list format:
ignorePlurals=["fr"] -
If you want to ignore all english plurals but
media, you can use the advanced syntax:
Advanced syntax enabled, no quotes: plural is ignored
Advanced syntax enabled, with quotes: plural/typos are ignored
You can also change this parameter for a single query by setting it when querying an index.