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Problem: Similar String Groups

hard
40 min
Explore how to use the Union-Find technique to identify similarity groups in a list of anagram strings. Learn to determine groups where strings are linked by swaps, helping you solve connectivity problems in coding interviews efficiently.

Statement

Two strings x and y are considered similar if they are either exactly the same or can be made identical by swapping at most two different characters in string x.

We define a similarity group as a set of strings where each string is similar to at least one other string in the group. A string doesn't need to be directly similar to every other string in the group — it just needs to be connected to them through a chain of similarities.

Given a list of strings strs, where each string is an anagram of the others, your task is to determine how many such similarity groups exist in the list.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq strs.length 300\leq 300

  • 11 \leq strs[i].length 300\leq 300

  • strs[i] consists of lowercase letters only.

  • All words in strs have the same length and are anagrams of each other.

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Problem: Similar String Groups

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40 min
Explore how to use the Union-Find technique to identify similarity groups in a list of anagram strings. Learn to determine groups where strings are linked by swaps, helping you solve connectivity problems in coding interviews efficiently.

Statement

Two strings x and y are considered similar if they are either exactly the same or can be made identical by swapping at most two different characters in string x.

We define a similarity group as a set of strings where each string is similar to at least one other string in the group. A string doesn't need to be directly similar to every other string in the group — it just needs to be connected to them through a chain of similarities.

Given a list of strings strs, where each string is an anagram of the others, your task is to determine how many such similarity groups exist in the list.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq strs.length 300\leq 300

  • 11 \leq strs[i].length 300\leq 300

  • strs[i] consists of lowercase letters only.

  • All words in strs have the same length and are anagrams of each other.