The Top Words

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Domain

Python

Difficulty

medium

Seniority

L4

Problem

Given a text string and integer k, split on whitespace, count occurrences, and return the k words with the highest counts. Sort by count descending, tie-break alphabetically ascending. If fewer than k distinct words exist, return all of them.

Summary

In every document, some words dominate the conversation.

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