You are right. I can’t find much in the documentation, only that ‘autocomplete offers less fidelity in score in exchange for faster query execution’. Autocomplete just doesn’t seem to be designed to score the complete query; it just gives a score of 1 for every document still competing for a good match.
I think you have to stick with a string index and a text query with fuzzy search enabled to have a meaningful score to work with.
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