Word Ladder II

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 si for 1 <= i <= k is in wordList. Note that beginWord does not need to be in wordList.
  • sk == endWord

Given two words, beginWord and endWord, and a dictionary wordList, return all the shortest transformation sequences from beginWord to endWord, or an empty list if no such sequence exists. Each sequence should be returned as a list of the words [beginWord, s1, s2, ..., sk].

Example 1
InputbeginWord = "hit", endWord = "cog", wordList = ["hot","dot","dog","lot","log","cog"]
Output[["hit","hot","dot","dog","cog"],["hit","hot","lot","log","cog"]]
There are 2 shortest transformation sequences: hit -> hot -> dot -> dog -> cog and hit -> hot -> lot -> log -> cog.
Example 2
InputbeginWord = "hit", endWord = "cog", wordList = ["hot","dot","dog","lot","log"]
Output[]
The endWord "cog" is not in wordList, therefore there is no valid transformation sequence.

Constraints

  • 1 <= beginWord.length <= 5
  • endWord.length == beginWord.length
  • 1 <= wordList.length <= 500
  • wordList[i].length == beginWord.length
  • beginWord, endWord, 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 10^5.

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