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Solution: Word Ladder

Explore how to solve the shortest word ladder transformation problem using a breadth-first search approach. Understand how to traverse word sequences by changing one character at a time and efficiently managing word lookups to find the minimum transformation steps from a source word to a destination word.

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 ( ...