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Word Ladder

Explore how to solve the Word Ladder problem by applying breadth-first search techniques. Learn to identify shortest transformation sequences between words, strengthening your grasp of coding interview patterns and improving your algorithmic problem-solving skills.

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 can be formed, return 00.

A transformation sequence is a sequence of words ((src \to word1word_1 \to ...