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Alien Dictionary

Given words sorted in an alien language, figure out the alphabet order. It's a graph problem in disguise: each pair of adjacent words gives you ordering constraints, and you need to find an order that satisfies all of them. The gotcha is detecting when no valid order exists—cycles in your constraint graph mean the input is invalid.

Arrays & HashingStringGraphsBFS / DFS
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