2423. Remove Letter To Equalize Frequency
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You are given a 0-indexed string word, consisting of lowercase English letters. You need to select one index and remove the letter at that index from word so that the frequency of every letter present in word is equal.
Return true if it is possible to remove one letter so that the frequency of all letters in word are equal, and false otherwise.
Note:
- The frequency of a letter
xis the number of times it occurs in the string. - You must remove exactly one letter and cannot choose to do nothing.
Example 1:
Input: word = "abcc" Output: true Explanation: Select index 3 and delete it: word becomes "abc" and each character has a frequency of 1.
Example 2:
Input: word = "aazz" Output: false Explanation: We must delete a character, so either the frequency of "a" is 1 and the frequency of "z" is 2, or vice versa. It is impossible to make all present letters have equal frequency.
Constraints:
2 <= word.length <= 100wordconsists of lowercase English letters only.
Hints
Hint 1
Brute force all letters that could be removed.
Hint 2
Use a frequency array of size 26.