diff --git a/components/typeahead/typeahead.directive.ts b/components/typeahead/typeahead.directive.ts
index 50d6c53395..2b3d058156 100644
--- a/components/typeahead/typeahead.directive.ts
+++ b/components/typeahead/typeahead.directive.ts
@@ -104,8 +104,13 @@ export class Typeahead implements OnInit {
   }
 
   private processMatches() {
+
     this._matches = [];
 
+    if (!this.typeahead) {
+      return;
+    }
+
     // If singleWords, break model here to not be doing extra work on each iteration
     let normalizedQuery = (this.typeaheadLatinize ? TypeaheadUtils.latinize(this.cd.model) : this.cd.model).toString().toLowerCase();
     normalizedQuery = this.typeaheadSingleWords ? TypeaheadUtils.tokenize(normalizedQuery, this.typeaheadWordDelimiters, this.typeaheadPhraseDelimiters) : normalizedQuery;