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Solution: Word Ladder

Explore how to apply Breadth-First Search to solve the Word Ladder problem by finding the shortest path transforming one word into another through valid intermediate words. Understand the use of sets, queues, and character adjacency to implement an efficient solution with optimal time and space complexity.

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 ( ...