Given a list of words, each word consists of English lowercase letters.
Let's say word1
is a predecessor of word2
if and only if
we can add exactly one letter anywhere in word1
to make it equal to
word2
. For example, "abc"
is a
predecessor of "abac"
.
A word chain is a sequence of words [word_1, word_2, ..., word_k]
with
k >= 1
, where word_1
is a predecessor of
word_2
, word_2
is a predecessor of word_3
, and so on.
Return the longest possible length of a word chain with words chosen from the given list of
words
.
Example 1:
Input: ["a","b","ba","bca","bda","bdca"] Output: 4 Explanation: one of the longest word chain is "a","ba","bda","bdca".
Note:
1 <= words.length <= 1000
1 <= words[i].length <= 16
words[i]
only consists of English lowercase letters.