diff --git a/src/services/componentSearchIndex.test.ts b/src/services/componentSearchIndex.test.ts
index fb541c9b5..18491bc6e 100644
--- a/src/services/componentSearchIndex.test.ts
+++ b/src/services/componentSearchIndex.test.ts
@@ -322,6 +322,58 @@ describe("lexicalSearch", () => {
     expect(lexicalSearch(index, "classif")[0]?.digest).toBe("prefix");
   });
 
+  it("applies typo tolerance to component names and input/output fields", () => {
+    const index = buildSearchIndex([
+      makeSourced({
+        digest: "name-typo",
+        spec: {
+          name: "filter_rows",
+          inputs: [],
+          outputs: [],
+          implementation: { container: { image: "x" } },
+        },
+      }),
+      makeSourced({
+        digest: "io-typo",
+        spec: {
+          name: "prepare_data",
+          inputs: [{ name: "dataset" }],
+          outputs: [{ name: "clean_table" }],
+          implementation: { container: { image: "x" } },
+        },
+      }),
+    ]);
+
+    expect(lexicalSearch(index, "filtr")[0]?.digest).toBe("name-typo");
+    expect(lexicalSearch(index, "datset")[0]?.digest).toBe("io-typo");
+  });
+
+  it("does not apply typo tolerance to descriptions or implementation text", () => {
+    const index = buildSearchIndex([
+      makeSourced({
+        digest: "description-only",
+        spec: {
+          name: "generic_component",
+          description: "Runs an xgboost classifier.",
+          inputs: [],
+          outputs: [],
+          implementation: { container: { image: "x" } },
+        },
+      }),
+      makeSourced({
+        digest: "implementation-only",
+        spec: {
+          name: "generic_runner",
+          inputs: [],
+          outputs: [],
+          implementation: { container: { image: "python:3.11-xgboost" } },
+        },
+      }),
+    ]);
+
+    expect(lexicalSearch(index, "xgbost")).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
   it("boosts rare tokens over common tokens", () => {
     // Both candidates contain BOTH query tokens (so the all-tokens bonus applies
     // equally) and differ only in which token sits in the high-weight name
diff --git a/src/services/componentSearchIndex.ts b/src/services/componentSearchIndex.ts
index 5c8dc4cad..002f22c6c 100644
--- a/src/services/componentSearchIndex.ts
+++ b/src/services/componentSearchIndex.ts
@@ -410,6 +410,7 @@ const FIELD_PHRASE_BONUS: Record<MatchField, number> = {
 };
 
 const PREFIX_MATCH_BONUS_MULTIPLIER = 0.5;
+const FUZZY_MATCH_BONUS_MULTIPLIER = 0.75;
 const ALL_QUERY_TOKENS_BONUS = 6;
 
 const SEARCH_FIELDS: MatchField[] = [
@@ -419,6 +420,7 @@ const SEARCH_FIELDS: MatchField[] = [
   "implementation",
   "metadata",
 ];
+const FUZZY_SEARCH_FIELDS: MatchField[] = ["name", "io"];
 
 interface SearchOptions {
   /** Max results to return. Default 20. */
@@ -434,6 +436,58 @@ function searchableTokens(text: string): string[] {
   return text.split(/[^a-z0-9]+/).filter(isNonEmptyString);
 }
 
+function maxTypoDistance(token: string): number {
+  // Require length >= 5 before allowing any edits: 4-char tokens are too short
+  // for distance-1 fuzziness without false positives on generic IO names
+  // (data<->date, path<->bath, list<->last).
+  if (token.length < 5) return 0;
+  if (token.length < 7) return 1;
+  return 2;
+}
+
+function isEditDistanceAtMost(
+  left: string,
+  right: string,
+  maxDistance: number,
+): boolean {
+  if (maxDistance === 0) return left === right;
+  if (Math.abs(left.length - right.length) > maxDistance) return false;
+
+  let previous = Array.from({ length: right.length + 1 }, (_, index) => index);
+  for (let leftIndex = 1; leftIndex <= left.length; leftIndex++) {
+    const current = [leftIndex];
+    let rowMinimum = current[0];
+
+    for (let rightIndex = 1; rightIndex <= right.length; rightIndex++) {
+      const substitutionCost =
+        left[leftIndex - 1] === right[rightIndex - 1] ? 0 : 1;
+      const value = Math.min(
+        previous[rightIndex] + 1,
+        current[rightIndex - 1] + 1,
+        previous[rightIndex - 1] + substitutionCost,
+      );
+      current[rightIndex] = value;
+      rowMinimum = Math.min(rowMinimum, value);
+    }
+
+    if (rowMinimum > maxDistance) return false;
+    previous = current;
+  }
+
+  return previous[right.length] <= maxDistance;
+}
+
+function hasFuzzyTokenMatch(fieldTokens: string[], token: string): boolean {
+  const maxDistance = maxTypoDistance(token);
+  if (maxDistance === 0) return false;
+  return fieldTokens.some(
+    (fieldToken) =>
+      !fieldToken.includes(token) &&
+      !token.includes(fieldToken) &&
+      isEditDistanceAtMost(token, fieldToken, maxDistance),
+  );
+}
+
 function entryMatchesToken(entry: IndexEntry, token: string): boolean {
   return SEARCH_FIELDS.some((field) => entry.searchable[field].includes(token));
 }
@@ -493,17 +547,27 @@ function scoreEntry(
     const tokenWeight = tokenWeights.get(token) ?? 1;
     for (const field of SEARCH_FIELDS) {
       const fieldText = entry.searchable[field];
-      if (!fieldText.includes(token)) continue;
-
       const fieldWeight = FIELD_WEIGHTS[field];
-      score += fieldWeight * tokenWeight;
-      matched.add(field);
 
-      const hasPrefixMatch = fieldTokensFor(field).some((fieldToken) =>
-        fieldToken.startsWith(token),
-      );
-      if (hasPrefixMatch) {
-        score += fieldWeight * PREFIX_MATCH_BONUS_MULTIPLIER * tokenWeight;
+      if (fieldText.includes(token)) {
+        score += fieldWeight * tokenWeight;
+        matched.add(field);
+
+        const hasPrefixMatch = fieldTokensFor(field).some((fieldToken) =>
+          fieldToken.startsWith(token),
+        );
+        if (hasPrefixMatch) {
+          score += fieldWeight * PREFIX_MATCH_BONUS_MULTIPLIER * tokenWeight;
+        }
+        continue;
+      }
+
+      if (
+        FUZZY_SEARCH_FIELDS.includes(field) &&
+        hasFuzzyTokenMatch(fieldTokensFor(field), token)
+      ) {
+        score += fieldWeight * FUZZY_MATCH_BONUS_MULTIPLIER * tokenWeight;
+        matched.add(field);
       }
     }
   }