Phone Keypad Word Filter
Asked at LinkedIn · Coding Questions · Difficulty: Medium · Last asked Oct 14, 2026
On a phone keypad the digits map to letters as `2=abc 3=def 4=ghi 5=jkl 6=mno 7=pqrs 8=tuv 9=wxyz`. Pressing a digit sequence could type many words; given a list of dictionary words, find the ones that the key presses `digits` spell.
Loading the problem…
More LinkedIn interview questions
- Design LinkedIn's Skills Extraction & Taxonomy Pipeline
- Stratified Sampling from Class-Bucketed Data
- Ranked-Choice Voting (Instant Runoff)
- Staff & Senior Behavioral Question Pack
- Design Post Search with Keyword Exclusion and Frequency Ranking
- AI Personalized Recruiter Message Generation