Problem of The Day: Find Most Frequent Vowel and Consonant

Problem Statement

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Brute Force [Accepted]

class Solution:
    def maxFreqSum(self, s: str) -> int:
        vowels = {'a','e','i','o','u'}
        freq = Counter(s)
        max_vowels = max_consonants = 0
        for c, v in freq.items():
            if c in vowels:
                max_vowels = max(max_vowels, v)
            else:
                max_consonants = max(max_consonants, v)
        return max_vowels + max_consonants

Editorial

from collections import Counter


class Solution:
    def maxFreqSum(self, s: str) -> int:
        mp = Counter(s)
        vowel = max((mp[ch] for ch in mp if ch in "aeiou"), default=0)
        consonant = max((mp[ch] for ch in mp if ch not in "aeiou"), default=0)
        return vowel + consonant