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Problem: Word Ladder II

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Explore how to solve the Word Ladder II problem by finding all shortest transformation sequences between two words. Understand constraints and apply backtracking to generate valid sequences using a given word list.

Statement

You are given two words, beginWord and endWord, and a dictionary of words called wordList. Your task is to find all the shortest transformation sequences from beginWord to endWord, such that:

  1. Only one letter can be changed at a time.

  2. Each transformed word must exist in the given wordList.

  3. The transformation sequence must begin with beginWord and end with endWord.

Return all the shortest transformation sequences as a list of lists. If no valid transformation exists, return an empty list.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq beginWord.length 5\leq 5

  • endWord.length == beginWord.length

  • 11 \leq wordList.length 500\leq 500

  • wordList[i].length == beginWord.length

  • beginWordendWord, and wordList[i] consist of lowercase English letters.

  • beginWord != endWord

  • All the words in wordList are unique.

  • The sum of all shortest transformation sequences does not exceed 10510^5.

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Problem: Word Ladder II

Medium
30 min
Explore how to solve the Word Ladder II problem by finding all shortest transformation sequences between two words. Understand constraints and apply backtracking to generate valid sequences using a given word list.

Statement

You are given two words, beginWord and endWord, and a dictionary of words called wordList. Your task is to find all the shortest transformation sequences from beginWord to endWord, such that:

  1. Only one letter can be changed at a time.

  2. Each transformed word must exist in the given wordList.

  3. The transformation sequence must begin with beginWord and end with endWord.

Return all the shortest transformation sequences as a list of lists. If no valid transformation exists, return an empty list.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq beginWord.length 5\leq 5

  • endWord.length == beginWord.length

  • 11 \leq wordList.length 500\leq 500

  • wordList[i].length == beginWord.length

  • beginWordendWord, and wordList[i] consist of lowercase English letters.

  • beginWord != endWord

  • All the words in wordList are unique.

  • The sum of all shortest transformation sequences does not exceed 10510^5.