Is there a way to exclude tag synonyms from searches?

Question

I was looking for single-use tags, and approximately half of our tags on Travel-SE (10 pages of them) are actually used once or are synonyms, so this is almost an exercise in futility.

To make it more clear:

Say that we have foo->bar, i.e. bar is the main tag, and foo is the synonym. I want to get bar in the results or when browsing, but not foo.

Is there a way to exclude the synonym tags when browsing? Alternatively, is there a way to do this from the Stack API? I think we have a person or two here that can work with this (hi Roflcoptr!).

Answer 1

I don't think it's possible through the UI or through the API. You can do it pretty easily through SEDE, which might be the best way if you're just trying to clean-up tags