Alien Dictionary
Explore how to find the lexicographical order of letters in an alien language given a sorted word list. Learn to apply topological sorting to solve this problem by understanding and coding the dependency graph. This lesson helps you implement a solution to derive unique letter orderings or identify when no valid order exists.
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Statement
You are given a list of words written in an alien language, where the words are sorted lexicographically by the rules of this language. Surprisingly, the aliens also use English lowercase letters, but possibly in a different order.
Given a list of words written in the alien language, return a string of unique letters sorted in the lexicographical order of the alien language as derived from the list of words.
If there’s no solution, that is, no valid lexicographical ordering, you can return an empty string "".
If multiple valid orderings exist, you may return any of them. ...