[Google Phone] Secret Word

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(This question has been seen in the interviews of the following companies: Google)

Given a secret word and encoding rules as follows: Each letter can be changed to a different letter. Different letters can not be changed to the same letter. For example, banana can be encoded to xyzyzy, but banana cannot become xyyyyy, because there is no way to decode it back. Also given an encoded string str, return true if and only if this string contains the specified secret word.




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