diff --git a/ext/js/background/backend.js b/ext/js/background/backend.js
index ce830361..994a6184 100644
--- a/ext/js/background/backend.js
+++ b/ext/js/background/backend.js
@@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ class Backend {
         const jp = this._japaneseUtil;
         const mode = 'simple';
         const options = this._getProfileOptions(optionsContext);
-        const details = {matchType: 'exact'};
+        const details = {matchType: 'exact', deinflect: true};
         const findTermsOptions = this._getTranslatorFindTermsOptions(mode, details, options);
         const results = [];
         let previousUngroupedSegment = null;
@@ -1959,8 +1959,9 @@ class Backend {
     }
 
     _getTranslatorFindTermsOptions(mode, details, options) {
-        let {matchType} = details;
+        let {matchType, deinflect} = details;
         if (typeof matchType !== 'string') { matchType = 'exact'; }
+        if (typeof deinflect !== 'boolean') { deinflect = true; }
         const enabledDictionaryMap = this._getTranslatorEnabledDictionaryMap(options);
         const {
             general: {mainDictionary, sortFrequencyDictionary, sortFrequencyDictionaryOrder},
@@ -1988,6 +1989,7 @@ class Backend {
         }
         return {
             matchType,
+            deinflect,
             mainDictionary,
             sortFrequencyDictionary,
             sortFrequencyDictionaryOrder,
diff --git a/ext/js/display/display.js b/ext/js/display/display.js
index 50df3b9d..cd60488d 100644
--- a/ext/js/display/display.js
+++ b/ext/js/display/display.js
@@ -851,8 +851,10 @@ class Display extends EventDispatcher {
                 if (match !== null) {
                     if (match[1]) {
                         findDetails.matchType = 'suffix';
+                        findDetails.deinflect = false;
                     } else if (match[3]) {
                         findDetails.matchType = 'prefix';
+                        findDetails.deinflect = false;
                     }
                     source = match[2];
                 }
diff --git a/ext/js/language/translator.js b/ext/js/language/translator.js
index dd7d54a0..31a3b7ed 100644
--- a/ext/js/language/translator.js
+++ b/ext/js/language/translator.js
@@ -234,12 +234,7 @@ class Translator {
             return {dictionaryEntries: [], originalTextLength: 0};
         }
 
-        const {matchType} = options;
-        const deinflections = await (
-            matchType && matchType !== 'exact' ?
-            this._findTermsWildcard(text, enabledDictionaryMap, matchType) :
-            this._findTermDeinflections(text, enabledDictionaryMap, options)
-        );
+        const deinflections = await this._findTermsInternal2(text, enabledDictionaryMap, options);
 
         let originalTextLength = 0;
         const dictionaryEntries = [];
@@ -259,17 +254,13 @@ class Translator {
         return {dictionaryEntries, originalTextLength};
     }
 
-    async _findTermsWildcard(text, enabledDictionaryMap, matchType) {
-        const databaseEntries = await this._database.findTermsBulk([text], enabledDictionaryMap, matchType);
-        return databaseEntries.length > 0 ? [this._createDeinflection(text, text, text, 0, [], databaseEntries)] : [];
-    }
-
-    async _findTermDeinflections(text, enabledDictionaryMap, options) {
-        const deinflections = this._getAllDeinflections(text, options);
-
-        if (deinflections.length === 0) {
-            return [];
-        }
+    async _findTermsInternal2(text, enabledDictionaryMap, options) {
+        const deinflections = (
+            options.deinflect ?
+            this._getAllDeinflections(text, options) :
+            [this._createDeinflection(text, text, text, 0, [], [])]
+        );
+        if (deinflections.length === 0) { return []; }
 
         const uniqueDeinflectionTerms = [];
         const uniqueDeinflectionArrays = [];
@@ -286,7 +277,8 @@ class Translator {
             deinflectionArray.push(deinflection);
         }
 
-        const databaseEntries = await this._database.findTermsBulk(uniqueDeinflectionTerms, enabledDictionaryMap, null);
+        const {matchType} = options;
+        const databaseEntries = await this._database.findTermsBulk(uniqueDeinflectionTerms, enabledDictionaryMap, matchType);
 
         for (const databaseEntry of databaseEntries) {
             const definitionRules = Deinflector.rulesToRuleFlags(databaseEntry.rules);
diff --git a/test/data/translator-test-inputs.json b/test/data/translator-test-inputs.json
index 396c476c..daee53a4 100644
--- a/test/data/translator-test-inputs.json
+++ b/test/data/translator-test-inputs.json
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@
             ]
         },
         "default": {
-            "wildcard": null,
+            "matchType": "exact",
+            "deinflect": true,
             "mainDictionary": "${title}",
             "sortFrequencyDictionary": null,
             "sortFrequencyDictionaryOrder": "descending",