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Word Squares
Difficulty: Hard
Category: DSA
Topics: Backtracking, Trie
Asked at: Bloomberg
Given a set of words (without duplicates), find all word squares you can build from them.
A sequence of words forms a valid word square if the kth row and column read the exact same string, where 0 ≤ k < max(numRows, numColumns).
For example, the word sequence `["ball","area","lead","lady"]` forms a word square because each word reads the same both horizontally and vertically.
b a l l
a r e a
l e a d
l a d y
Note:
There are at least 1 and at most 1000 words.
All words will have the exact same length.
Word length is at least 1 and at most 5.
Each word contains only lowercase English alphabet `a-z`.
Example 1:
Input:
["area","lead","wall","lady","ball"]
Output:
[
[ "wall",
"area",
"lead",
"lady"
],
[ "ball",
"area",
"lead",
"lady"
]
]
Explanation:
The output consists of two word squares. The order of output does not matter (just the order of words in each word square matters).
Example 2:
Input:
["abat","baba","atan","atal"]
Output:
[
[ "baba",
"abat",
"baba",
"atan"
],
[ "baba",
"abat",
"baba",
"atal"
]
]
Explanation:
The output consists of two word squares. The order of output does not matter (just the order of words in each word square matters).
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