You are given a string s
consisting of lowercase English letters.
The frequency group for a value k
is the set of characters that appear exactly k
times in s.
The majority frequency group is the frequency group that contains the largest number of distinct characters.
Return a string containing all characters in the majority frequency group, in any order. If two or more frequency groups tie for that largest size, pick the group whose frequency k
is larger.
Example 1:
Input: s = "aaabbbccdddde"
Output: "ab"
Explanation:
Frequency (k) | Distinct characters in group | Group size | Majority? |
---|---|---|---|
4 | {d} | 1 | No |
3 | {a, b} | 2 | Yes |
2 | {c} | 1 | No |
1 | {e} | 1 | No |
Both characters 'a'
and 'b'
share the same frequency 3, they are in the majority frequency group. "ba"
is also a valid answer.
Example 2:
Input: s = "abcd"
Output: "abcd"
Explanation:
Frequency (k) | Distinct characters in group | Group size | Majority? |
---|---|---|---|
1 | {a, b, c, d} | 4 | Yes |
All characters share the same frequency 1, they are all in the majority frequency group.
Example 3:
Input: s = "pfpfgi"
Output: "fp"
Explanation:
Frequency (k) | Distinct characters in group | Group size | Majority? |
---|---|---|---|
2 | {p, f} | 2 | Yes |
1 | {g, i} | 2 | No (tied size, lower frequency) |
Both characters 'p'
and 'f'
share the same frequency 2, they are in the majority frequency group. There is a tie in group size with frequency 1, but we pick the higher frequency: 2.
Constraints:
1 <= s.length <= 100
s
consists only of lowercase English letters.