Anagrams Grouping | Dataford Interview Questions

Group the words from a given list that are anagrams of each other, e.g. ["mat","tam","cute","beat","eatb","teab","ateb"] -> [["mat","tam"],["cute"],["beat","eatb","teab","ateb"]]

Asked in the Technical Round 1 stage.

Implement group_anagrams(words). The input is a list of lowercase strings. Return a list of groups, where each group contains words with identical character counts. Preserve the order of groups by each group's first appearance and preserve word order within each group.

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def group_anagrams(words):

Input and output

Input: words, a list of lowercase strings.
Output: a list of lists containing the grouped words.

Constraints

1 <= len(words) <= 5000
1 <= len(word) <= 100
Words contain only lowercase English letters

Function Signature

def group_anagrams(words):

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