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Solution: Word Ladder II

Let’s solve the Word Ladder II problem using the Backtracking pattern.

Statement

You are given two words, beginWord and endWord, and a dictionary of words called wordList. Your task is to find all the shortest transformation sequences from beginWord to endWord, such that:

  1. Only one letter can be changed at a time.

  2. Each transformed word must exist in the given wordList.

  3. The transformation sequence must begin with beginWord and end with endWord.

Return all the shortest transformation sequences as a list of lists. If no valid transformation exists, return an empty list.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq beginWord.length 5\leq 5

  • endWord.length == beginWord.length

  • 11 \leq wordList.length 500\leq 500 ...