Find and Replace Pattern

Given a list of strings words and a string pattern, return a list of words[i] that match pattern. You may return the answer in any order.

A word matches the pattern if there exists a permutation of letters p so that after replacing every letter x in the pattern with p(x), we get the desired word.

Recall that a permutation of letters is a bijection from letters to letters: every letter maps to another letter, and no two letters map to the same letter.

Example 1
Inputwords = ["abc","deq","mee","aqq","dkd","ccc"], pattern = "abb"
Output["mee","aqq"]
"mee" matches the pattern because there is a permutation {a -> m, b -> e, ...}, while "ccc" does not because a and b would map to the same letter.
Example 2
Inputwords = ["a","b","c"], pattern = "a"
Output["a","b","c"]
Each single-letter word matches the single-letter pattern "a".

Constraints

  • 1 <= pattern.length <= 20
  • 1 <= words.length <= 50
  • words[i].length == pattern.length
  • pattern and words[i] are lowercase English letters.

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