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1170. Compare Strings by Frequency of the Smallest Character

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Let the function f(s) be the frequency of the lexicographically smallest character in a non-empty string s. For example, if s = "dcce" then f(s) = 2 because the lexicographically smallest character is 'c', which has a frequency of 2. You are given an array of strings words and another array of query strings queries. For each query queries[i], count the number of words in words such that f(queries

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