A transformation sequence from word beginWord to word endWord using a dictionary wordList is a sequence of words beginWord -> s₁ -> s₂ -> ... -> sₖ such that:
- Every adjacent pair of words differs by a single letter.
- Every
sᵢfor1 <= i <= kis inwordList. Note thatbeginWorddoes not need to be inwordList. sₖ == endWord
Given two words, beginWord and endWord, and a dictionary wordList, return the number of words in the shortest transformation sequence from beginWord to endWord, or 0 if no such sequence exists.
Examples
Example 1
Input: beginWord = "hit", endWord = "cog", wordList = ["hot","dot","dog","lot","log","cog"]
Output: 5
One shortest transformation sequence is "hit" -> "hot" -> "dot" -> "dog" -> cog", which is 5 words long.
Example 2
Input: beginWord = "hit", endWord = "cog", wordList = ["hot","dot","dog","lot","log"]
Output: 0
The endWord "cog" is not in wordList, therefore there is no valid transformation sequence.
Constraints
1 <= beginWord.length <= 10endWord.length == beginWord.length1 <= wordList.length <= 5000wordList[i].length == beginWord.lengthbeginWord,endWord, andwordList[i]consist of lowercase English letters.beginWord != endWord- All the words in
wordListare unique.