# 1804. Implement Trie II (solutions/Prefix Tree)

https://leetcode.com/problems/implement-trie-ii-prefix-tree

## Description

A [**trie**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie) (pronounced as "try") or **prefix tree** is a tree data structure used to efficiently store and retrieve keys in a dataset of strings. There are various applications of this data structure, such as autocomplete and spellchecker.

Implement the Trie class:

* `Trie()` Initializes the trie object.
* `void insert(String word)` Inserts the string `word` into the trie.
* `int countWordsEqualTo(String word)` Returns the number of instances of the string `word` in the trie.
* `int countWordsStartingWith(String prefix)` Returns the number of strings in the trie that have the string `prefix` as a prefix.
* `void erase(String word)` Erases the string `word` from the trie.

**Example 1:**

```
**Input**
["Trie", "insert", "insert", "countWordsEqualTo", "countWordsStartingWith", "erase", "countWordsEqualTo", "countWordsStartingWith", "erase", "countWordsStartingWith"]
[[], ["apple"], ["apple"], ["apple"], ["app"], ["apple"], ["apple"], ["app"], ["apple"], ["app"]]
**Output**
[null, null, null, 2, 2, null, 1, 1, null, 0]
**Explanation**
Trie trie = new Trie();
trie.insert("apple");               // Inserts "apple".
trie.insert("apple");               // Inserts another "apple".
trie.countWordsEqualTo("apple");    // There are two instances of "apple" so return 2.
trie.countWordsStartingWith("app"); // "app" is a prefix of "apple" so return 2.
trie.erase("apple");                // Erases one "apple".
trie.countWordsEqualTo("apple");    // Now there is only one instance of "apple" so return 1.
trie.countWordsStartingWith("app"); // return 1
trie.erase("apple");                // Erases "apple". Now the trie is empty.
trie.countWordsStartingWith("app"); // return 0
```

**Constraints:**

* `1 <= word.length, prefix.length <= 2000`
* `word` and `prefix` consist only of lowercase English letters.
* At most `3 * 104` calls **in total** will be made to `insert`, `countWordsEqualTo`, `countWordsStartingWith`, and `erase`.
* It is guaranteed that for any function call to `erase`, the string `word` will exist in the trie.

## ac

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