Vowel Spellchecker
Provided a wordlist, we want to implement a spellchecker that converts a query word into a correct word.
For a provided query word, the spell checker handles two categories of spelling mistakes:
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Capitalization: If the query matches a word in the wordlist (case-insensitive), then the query word is returned with the same case as the case in the wordlist.
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Example:
wordlist = ["yellow"],query = "YellOw":correct = "yellow" -
Example:
wordlist = ["Yellow"],query = "yellow":correct = "Yellow" -
Example:
wordlist = ["yellow"],query = "yellow":correct = "yellow"
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Vowel Errors: If after replacing the vowels
('a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u')of the query word with any vowel individually, it matches a word in the wordlist (case-insensitive), then the query word is returned with the same case as the match in the wordlist.-
Example:
wordlist = ["YellOw"],query = "yollow":correct = "YellOw" -
Example:
wordlist = ["YellOw"],query = "yeellow":correct = ""(no match) -
Example:
wordlist = ["YellOw"],query = "yllw":correct = ""(no match)
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In addition, the spell checker operates under the following precedence rules:
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When the query exactly matches a word in the wordlist (case-sensitive), you should produce the same word back.
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When the query matches a word up to capitalization, you should produce the first such match in the wordlist.
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When the query matches a word up to vowel errors, you should produce the first such match in the wordlist.
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If the query has no matches in the wordlist, you should produce the empty string.
Provided some queries, produce a list of words answer, where answer[i] is the correct word for query = queries[i].
Input: wordlist = ["KiTe", "kite", "hare", "Hare"], queries = ["kite", "Kite", "KiTe", "Hare", "HARE", "Hear", "hear", "keti", "keet", "keto"]
Output: ["kite", "KiTe", "KiTe", "Hare", "hare", "", "", "KiTe", "", "KiTe"]
Input: wordlist = ["yellow"], queries = ["YellOw"]
Output: ["yellow"]
Constraints
1 <= wordlist.length, queries.length <= 50001 <= wordlist[i].length, queries[i].length <= 7wordlist[i]andqueries[i]consist only of only English letters.
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