diff --git a/libs/shared/ui-utils/src/index.ts b/libs/shared/ui-utils/src/index.ts
index 52d71ea33..f3c7b9045 100644
--- a/libs/shared/ui-utils/src/index.ts
+++ b/libs/shared/ui-utils/src/index.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ export * from './lib/hooks/useCombinedRefs';
 export * from './lib/hooks/useDebounce';
 export * from './lib/hooks/useDrivePicker';
 export * from './lib/hooks/useFetchPageLayouts';
+export * from './lib/hooks/useFuzzySearchFilter';
 export * from './lib/hooks/useGlobalEventHandler';
 export * from './lib/hooks/useGoogleApi';
 export * from './lib/hooks/useHover';
diff --git a/libs/shared/ui-utils/src/lib/hooks/useFuzzySearchFilter.ts b/libs/shared/ui-utils/src/lib/hooks/useFuzzySearchFilter.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0df62aae5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libs/shared/ui-utils/src/lib/hooks/useFuzzySearchFilter.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+import Fuse, { IFuseOptions } from 'fuse.js';
+import { useMemo, useState } from 'react';
+import { useDebounce } from './useDebounce';
+
+const DEFAULT_OPTIONS: IFuseOptions<unknown> = {
+  includeScore: true,
+  findAllMatches: true,
+  ignoreLocation: true,
+  includeMatches: true,
+  keys: ['label', 'value', 'secondaryLabel', 'tertiaryLabel'],
+};
+
+export function useFuzzySearchFilter<T extends object>(items: T[], filter: string, options: IFuseOptions<unknown> = DEFAULT_OPTIONS) {
+  const fuse = useMemo(() => new Fuse<T>(items, { ...options }), [items, options]);
+
+  const filterText = useDebounce(filter, 300);
+  const [visibleItems, setVisibleItems] = useState(items);
+
+  useMemo(() => {
+    if (filterText) {
+      const result = fuse.search(filterText);
+      setVisibleItems(result.map(({ item }) => item));
+    } else {
+      setVisibleItems(items);
+    }
+  }, [filterText, fuse, items]);
+
+  return visibleItems;
+}
diff --git a/libs/ui/src/lib/form/combobox/ComboboxWithDrillInItems.tsx b/libs/ui/src/lib/form/combobox/ComboboxWithDrillInItems.tsx
index 84bb4c275..db0198968 100644
--- a/libs/ui/src/lib/form/combobox/ComboboxWithDrillInItems.tsx
+++ b/libs/ui/src/lib/form/combobox/ComboboxWithDrillInItems.tsx
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ export interface ComboboxWithDrillInItemsProps extends Pick<ComboboxWithItemsPro
   selectedItemId?: string | null;
   /** Used as the heading in the dropdown when no items are selected. Will be pre-pended to child item labels */
   rootHeadingLabel?: string;
-  /** Optional. If not provided, standard multi-word search will be used */
-  filterFn?: (filter: string) => (value: unknown, index: number, array: unknown[]) => boolean;
   onSelected: (item: Maybe<ListItem>) => void;
   /** Parent component is in charge of loading items and adding items as drillInItems to this item */
   onLoadItems?: (item: ListItem) => Promise<ListItem[]>;
@@ -41,7 +39,6 @@ export const ComboboxWithDrillInItems: FunctionComponent<ComboboxWithDrillInItem
   items,
   selectedItemId,
   rootHeadingLabel,
-  filterFn,
   onSelected,
   onLoadItems,
   ...rest
@@ -149,7 +146,6 @@ export const ComboboxWithDrillInItems: FunctionComponent<ComboboxWithDrillInItem
       heading={heading}
       items={currentItems}
       selectedItemId={selectedItemId}
-      filterFn={filterFn}
       onSelected={handleSelection}
       onClose={handleClose}
       {...rest}
diff --git a/libs/ui/src/lib/form/combobox/ComboboxWithItems.tsx b/libs/ui/src/lib/form/combobox/ComboboxWithItems.tsx
index 1ca067800..3f573519c 100644
--- a/libs/ui/src/lib/form/combobox/ComboboxWithItems.tsx
+++ b/libs/ui/src/lib/form/combobox/ComboboxWithItems.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
-import { focusElementFromRefWhenAvailable, getFlattenedListItemsById, menuItemSelectScroll, useDebounce } from '@jetstream/shared/ui-utils';
-import { multiWordObjectFilter, NOOP } from '@jetstream/shared/utils';
+import {
+  focusElementFromRefWhenAvailable,
+  getFlattenedListItemsById,
+  menuItemSelectScroll,
+  useFuzzySearchFilter,
+} from '@jetstream/shared/ui-utils';
+import { NOOP } from '@jetstream/shared/utils';
 import { ListItem, Maybe } from '@jetstream/types';
 import isNumber from 'lodash/isNumber';
 import { createRef, forwardRef, useCallback, useEffect, useImperativeHandle, useRef, useState } from 'react';
@@ -7,8 +12,6 @@ import { Combobox, ComboboxPropsRef, ComboboxSharedProps } from './Combobox';
 import { ComboboxListItem, ComboboxListItemProps } from './ComboboxListItem';
 import { ComboboxListItemHeading } from './ComboboxListItemHeading';
 
-const defaultFilterFn = (filter) =>
-  multiWordObjectFilter<ListItem<string, any>>(['label', 'value', 'secondaryLabel', 'tertiaryLabel'], filter);
 const defaultSelectedItemLabelFn = (item: ListItem) => item.label;
 const defaultSelectedItemTitleFn = (item: ListItem) => item.title;
 
@@ -28,8 +31,6 @@ export interface ComboboxWithItemsProps {
   };
   /** Function called for each item to customize the props of <ComboboxListItem /> */
   itemProps?: (item: ListItem) => Partial<ComboboxListItemProps>;
-  /** Optional. If not provided, standard multi-word search will be used */
-  filterFn?: (filter: string) => (value: unknown, index: number, array: unknown[]) => boolean;
   /** Used to customize what shows upon selection */
   selectedItemLabelFn?: (item: ListItem) => string;
   selectedItemTitleFn?: (item: ListItem) => Maybe<string>;
@@ -51,7 +52,6 @@ export const ComboboxWithItems = forwardRef<ComboboxWithItemsRef, ComboboxWithIt
       selectedItemId,
       heading,
       itemProps = NOOP,
-      filterFn = defaultFilterFn,
       selectedItemLabelFn = defaultSelectedItemLabelFn,
       selectedItemTitleFn = defaultSelectedItemTitleFn,
       onSelected,
@@ -60,12 +60,11 @@ export const ComboboxWithItems = forwardRef<ComboboxWithItemsRef, ComboboxWithIt
     ref
   ) => {
     const comboboxRef = useRef<ComboboxPropsRef>(null);
-    const [filterTextNonDebounced, setFilterText] = useState<string>('');
-    const filterText = useDebounce(filterTextNonDebounced, 300);
+    const [filterText, setFilterText] = useState<string>('');
     const [selectedItem, setSelectedItem] = useState<Maybe<ListItem>>(() =>
       selectedItemId ? items.find((item) => item.id === selectedItemId) : null
     );
-    const [visibleItems, setVisibleItems] = useState(items);
+    const visibleItems = useFuzzySearchFilter(items, filterText);
     const [selectedItemLabel, setSelectedItemLabel] = useState<string | null>(() => {
       if (selectedItem) {
         const selectedItem = items.find((item) => item.id === selectedItemId);
@@ -112,17 +111,6 @@ export const ComboboxWithItems = forwardRef<ComboboxWithItemsRef, ComboboxWithIt
       }
     }, [selectedItem, selectedItemLabelFn, selectedItemTitleFn]);
 
-    useEffect(() => {
-      if (!filterText) {
-        setVisibleItems(items);
-        setFocusedIndex(null);
-      } else {
-        const filter = filterText.toLowerCase().trim();
-        setVisibleItems(items.filter(filterFn(filter)));
-        setFocusedIndex(null);
-      }
-    }, [items, filterText, filterFn]);
-
     const onInputEnter = useCallback(() => {
       if (visibleItems.length > 0) {
         onSelected(visibleItems[0]);
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c0734bc1e..850907ee5 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -269,6 +269,7 @@
     "form-data": "^4.0.0",
     "formulon": "^6.25.2",
     "fs-extra": "^9.0.1",
+    "fuse.js": "^7.0.0",
     "helmet": "^4.1.1",
     "jsonwebtoken": "^9.0.2",
     "jszip": "^3.10.1",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index cd7f278ea..41df4ccec 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -16129,6 +16129,11 @@ functions-have-names@^1.2.2, functions-have-names@^1.2.3:
   resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/functions-have-names/-/functions-have-names-1.2.3.tgz"
   integrity sha512-xckBUXyTIqT97tq2x2AMb+g163b5JFysYk0x4qxNFwbfQkmNZoiRHb6sPzI9/QV33WeuvVYBUIiD4NzNIyqaRQ==
 
+fuse.js@^7.0.0:
+  version "7.0.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/fuse.js/-/fuse.js-7.0.0.tgz#6573c9fcd4c8268e403b4fc7d7131ffcf99a9eb2"
+  integrity sha512-14F4hBIxqKvD4Zz/XjDc3y94mNZN6pRv3U13Udo0lNLCWRBUsrMv2xwcF/y/Z5sV6+FQW+/ow68cHpm4sunt8Q==
+
 fx@*:
   version "33.0.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/fx/-/fx-33.0.0.tgz#1b24260c5cfa08e03abfc034065fd95ab9873493"