1048.

Longest String Chain

Medium

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: words = ["a","b","ba","bca","bda","bdca"] Output: 4 Explanation: One of the longest word chain is "a","ba","bda","bdca". Example 2: Input: words = ["xbc","pcxbcf","xb","cxbc","pcxbc"] Output: 5 Constraints: 1 <= words.length <= 1000 1 <= words[i].length <= 16 words[i] only consists of English lowercase letters.