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You are given two 0-indexed arrays of strings startWords and targetWords. Each string consists of lowercase English letters only.

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For each string in targetWords, check if it is possible to choose a string from startWords and perform a conversion operation on it to be equal to that from targetWords.

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The conversion operation is described in the following two steps:

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Return the number of strings in targetWords that can be obtained by performing the operations on any string of startWords.

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Note that you will only be verifying if the string in targetWords can be obtained from a string in startWords by performing the operations. The strings in startWords do not actually change during this process.

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Example 1:

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\nInput: startWords = ["ant","act","tack"], targetWords = ["tack","act","acti"]\nOutput: 2\nExplanation:\n- In order to form targetWords[0] = "tack", we use startWords[1] = "act", append 'k' to it, and rearrange "actk" to "tack".\n- There is no string in startWords that can be used to obtain targetWords[1] = "act".\n  Note that "act" does exist in startWords, but we must append one letter to the string before rearranging it.\n- In order to form targetWords[2] = "acti", we use startWords[1] = "act", append 'i' to it, and rearrange "acti" to "acti" itself.\n
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Example 2:

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\nInput: startWords = ["ab","a"], targetWords = ["abc","abcd"]\nOutput: 1\nExplanation:\n- In order to form targetWords[0] = "abc", we use startWords[0] = "ab", add 'c' to it, and rearrange it to "abc".\n- There is no string in startWords that can be used to obtain targetWords[1] = "abcd".\n
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