Understanding Typesense's Synonym Functionality

Hi, new to Typesense and love it so far: straight forward to get started, great documentation. I've managed to create a Collection and uploaded some Documents. The Documents are ingredients, and each ingredient has multiple names one of which is the preferred name. The Document schema includes a field called name, which is the preferred name. I then create Synonyms using the other names and upsert them to Typesense. When I search using the preferred name it works perfectly, including for partial strings. However, when I search using the Synonym I have to type the complete name for a result to be returned. For example, propolis has a Synonym bee bread. Searching "pro" will return propolis as expected. However, searching for bee returns no results, similarly bread also returns no results. Is this how Synonyms are intended to work? My expectation was that a partial search string should return potentially matching synonyms.

👋 happy to hear that you are liking Typesense!

Regarding synonyms, yes, they don't have typos enabled because typically we have found that to get really confusing and saw various corner cases.

What you could do here is to index these alternative names as an array field and include this field during searching.

Excellent, I thought that was the answer