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Solution: Find Words That Can Be Formed by Characters

Understand how to use frequency analysis to determine which words can be formed from a given set of characters. Learn to build character frequency maps, compare counts efficiently, and calculate the total length of all valid words. This lesson helps you solve character formation problems with an optimal approach.

Statement

You are given an array of strings words and a string chars.

A string in words is considered good if it can be formed using only the characters available in chars, where each character in chars may be used at most once per word.

Return the sum of the lengths of all good strings in words.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq words.length 1000\leq 1000

  • 11 \leq words[i].length, chars.length ...