You'll probably need to do this check in your code. To the best of my knowledge, SQL doesn't have a restriction available for minimum LIKE length. If you tell it "give me the stuff with an a in it" it'll do just that.
You might consider using a rule on the request to prevent the term from getting to your database. The min should sort out the issue.
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