Coding Trainer
Alien Dictionary
Problem
Alien Dictionary
There is a new alien language that uses the English alphabet, but the order among the letters is unknown. You are given a list of words from the alien dictionary's lexicon, sorted lexicographically by the rules of this new language.
Derive one valid ordering of letters in this language, and return it as a string. If there's no valid ordering, return "".
Example 1:
Input: words = ["wrt","wrf","er","ett","rftt"]
Output: "wertf"
Example 2:
Input: words = ["z","x"]
Output: "zx"
Example 3:
Input: words = ["z","x","z"]
Output: ""
Explanation: "z" would need to come both before and after "x" — contradiction.
Constraints:
- 1 ≤ words.length ≤ 100
- 1 ≤ words[i].length ≤ 100
- words[i] consists of only lowercase English letters