Top K Frequent Words

Given an array of strings words and an integer k, return the k most frequent strings.

Return the answer sorted by the frequency from highest to lowest. Sort the words with the same frequency by their lexicographical order.

Follow-up: Could you solve it in O(n log(k)) time and O(n) extra space?

Example 1
Inputwords = ["i","love","leetcode","i","love","coding"], k = 2
Output["i","love"]
"i" and "love" are the two most frequent words, and "i" comes before "love" due to a lower alphabetical order.
Example 2
Inputwords = ["the","day","is","sunny","the","the","the","sunny","is","is"], k = 4
Output["the","is","sunny","day"]
"the", "is", "sunny", and "day" are the four most frequent words, with occurrence counts 4, 3, 2, and 1 respectively.

Constraints

  • 1 <= words.length <= 500
  • 1 <= words[i].length <= 10
  • words[i] consists of lowercase English letters.
  • k is in the range [1, The number of unique words[i]]

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