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Solution: Word Ladder

Explore how to solve the Word Ladder problem by applying a breadth-first search approach. Understand how to identify the shortest transformation sequence between two words by examining adjacent words differing by one character. This lesson guides you through implementing BFS to efficiently navigate word sets and optimize your 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 ( ...