$ cat ./coding/1170-compare-strings-by-frequency-of-the-smallest-character.md

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1170. Compare Strings by Frequency of the Smallest Character

class Solution:
    def f(self, word):
        lexicalOrder = sorted(word)
        counter = collections.Counter(lexicalOrder)
        return counter[lexicalOrder[0]]
    
    def numSmallerByFrequency(self, queries: List[str], words: List[str]) -> List[int]:
        queryFreqs = [self.f(query) for query in queries]
        wordFreqs = [self.f(word) for word in words]
        ans = []
        for queryFreq in queryFreqs:
            count = 0
            for wordFreq in wordFreqs:    
                if wordFreq > queryFreq:
                    count += 1
            ans.append(count)
        return ans

$ ls ./coding/ | grep -v 1170-compare-strings-by-frequency-of-the-smallest-character