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Solution: Word Ladder

Explore the BFS approach to solve the Word Ladder problem by finding the shortest transformation sequence between two words. Understand how to use queue operations and sets to efficiently traverse word adjacency, and gain insight into the time and space complexity of this solution.

Statement

Given two words, src and dest, and a list, words, return the number of words in the shortest transformation sequence from src to dest. If no such sequence could be formed, return 00.

A transformation sequence is a sequence of words ( ...