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Similar String Groups

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Problem Statement

Two strings, X and Y , are considered similar if either they are identical or we can make them equivalent by swapping at most two letters (in distinct positions) within the string X .

For example, "tars" and "rats" are similar (swapping at positions 0 and 2 ), and "rats" and "arts" are similar, but "star" is not similar to "tars" , "rats" , or "arts" .

Together, these form two connected groups by similarity: {"tars", "rats", "arts"} and {"star"} . Notice that "tars" and "arts" are in the same group even though they are not similar. Formally, each group is such that a word is in the group if and only if it is similar to at least one other word in the group.

We are given a list strs of strings where every string in strs is an anagram of every other string in strs . How many groups are there?

Examples

Example 1
Input: strs = ["tars","rats","arts","star"]
Output: 2
Example 2
Input: strs = ["omv","ovm"]
Output: 1

Constraints

1 <= strs.length <= 300
1 <= strs[i].length <= 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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Topic Info
ModuleDSA
CategoryArray
Sub-topicHash Table
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arrayhash tablestringdepth-first searchbreadth-first searchunion-find
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