Watched Words - Is there a way to block the use of asterisks with certain words instead of it being used as a wildcard?

[Don]

Side note, be careful if you have other watched words too and you enable regex it will affect all word added to the list. It means you have to change the word boundaries to avoid partial matches.

@Discourse

Word boundaries

Regex patterns can unintentionally match parts of words. Use word boundaries to avoid partial matches.

\bthreads?\b

This matches thread and threads but avoids matches like threadlike or unthreading.