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Top K Frequent Words

Problem statement

Given an array of strings words and an integer k, return the k most frequent strings.

Return the answer sorted by the frequency from highest to lowest. Sort the words with the same frequency by their lexicographical order.

Example 1:

Input: words = ["i","love","leetcode","i","love","coding"], k = 2Output: ["i","love"]Explanation: "i" and "love" are the two most frequent words.Note that "i" comes before "love" due to a lower alphabetical order.

Example 2:

Input: words = ["the","day","is","sunny","the","the","the","sunny","is","is"], k = 4Output: ["the","is","sunny","day"]Explanation: "the", "is", "sunny" and "day" are the four most frequent words, with the number of occurrence being 4, 3, 2 and 1 respectively.

Constraints:

  • 1 <= words.length <= 500
  • 1 <= words[i] <= 10
  • words[i] consists of lowercase English letters.
  • k is in the range [1, The number of unique words[i]]

Follow-up: Could you solve it in O(n log(k)) time and O(n) extra space?

My solution

/**
* @param {string[]} words
* @param {number} k
* @return {string[]}
*/
var topKFrequent = function(words, k) {
const map = new Map()

for (const word of words) {
if (!map.has(word)) {
map.set(word, 0)
}

map.set(word, map.get(word) + 1)
}

const result = [...map].sort((a, b) => (b[1] - a[1]) || a[0].localeCompare(b[0]))
return result.slice(0, k).map(([v]) => v)
};