Should WK warn if you start a vocab meaning with "to" when it's not a verb?

So 休み came up in my reviews today, and apparently I misread it as 休む and put “to rest” instead of just “rest”. I feel WK was right not to mark it correct, but here I feel like I made an easy mistake. Should WK warn in cases like this?

Note that I don’t propose warning for starting with “to” for every single vocabulary term that isn’t a verb—only if there’s a related verb form that it can get confused with. (I’m also in favor of not warning for starting with “to” if there’s no okurigana at the end of the vocab term, too, since verbs always end in okurigana in Japanese, but that’s a debate I’m willing to have while we’re talking about this suggestion.)

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I’d say that would be a useful warning shake and easy to implement.

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Sounds like a good idea to me, especially since a warning is displayed if you, for example, write “rest” instead of “to rest” for (やす)む (it’s just the other way around, confusing verb with a noun). I think we should ping the @Mods

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Thanks for the ping! I will share this with the team and see if this is something we’d like to work on in the future!

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