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Vowel Spellchecker

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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:

  • 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.

    • Example: wordlist = ["yellow"], query = "YellOw": correct = "yellow"

    • Example: wordlist = ["Yellow"], query = "yellow": correct = "Yellow"

    • Example: wordlist = ["yellow"], query = "yellow": correct = "yellow"

  • 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)

In addition, the spell checker operates under the following precedence rules:

  • When the query exactly matches a word in the wordlist (case-sensitive), you should produce the same word back.

  • When the query matches a word up to capitalization, you should produce the first such match in the wordlist.

  • When the query matches a word up to vowel errors, you should produce the first such match in the wordlist.

  • 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].

Example 1

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"]

Example 2

Input: wordlist = ["yellow"], queries = ["YellOw"]

Output: ["yellow"]

Constraints

  • 1 <= wordlist.length, queries.length <= 5000
  • 1 <= wordlist[i].length, queries[i].length <= 7
  • wordlist[i] and queries[i] consist only of only English letters.

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