Minimum Number of Moves to Make Palindrome

You are given a string s consisting only of lowercase English letters.

In one move, you can select any two adjacent characters of s and swap them.

Return the minimum number of moves needed to make s a palindrome.

Note that the input will be generated such that s can always be converted to a palindrome.

Example 1
Inputs = "aabb"
Output2
Both "abba" and "baab" can be obtained from s in 2 moves, so the minimum number of moves needed is 2.
Example 2
Inputs = "letelt"
Output2
One palindrome obtainable in 2 moves is "lettel", and it is not possible to obtain a palindrome in fewer than 2 moves.

Constraints

  • 1 <= s.length <= 2000
  • s consists only of lowercase English letters.
  • s can be converted to a palindrome using a finite number of moves.

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