Given a list of words, each word consists of English lowercase letters.
Let's say word1 is a predecessor of word2 if and only if we can add exactly one letter anywhere in word1 to make it equal to word2.  For example, "abc" is a predecessor of "abac".
A word chain is a sequence of words [word_1, word_2, ..., word_k] with k >= 1, where word_1 is a predecessor of word_2, word_2 is a predecessor of word_3, and so on.
Return the longest possible length of a word chain with words chosen from the given list of words.
 
Example 1:
Input: ["a","b","ba","bca","bda","bdca"]
Output: 4
Explanation: one of the longest word chain is "a","ba","bda","bdca".

 
Note:

1 <= words.length <= 1000
1 <= words[i].length <= 16
words[i] only consists of English lowercase letters.

```python

USER_FILENAME = "<user_code>"
import sys, json, builtins
import math, heapq, bisect, itertools, functools, collections, statistics, fractions, decimal, operator, array, random, re, string, os, pathlib
try:
    import resource as _res
except Exception:
    _res = None
from collections import Counter, defaultdict, deque, OrderedDict
from functools import lru_cache, reduce
from itertools import accumulate, permutations, combinations, product
from math import gcd, ceil, floor, sqrt
from decimal import Decimal
try:
    from typing import *
except Exception:
    pass
try:
    sys.setrecursionlimit(1_000_000)
except Exception:
    pass
try:
    import site as _site
    try:
        _sys_sites = _site.getsitepackages() if hasattr(_site, "getsitepackages") else []
        for _p in _sys_sites:
            if _p and _p not in sys.path:
                sys.path.append(_p)
    except Exception:
        pass
    try:
        _usp = _site.getusersitepackages()
        if isinstance(_usp, str):
            _usp = [_usp]
        for _p in _usp:
            if _p and _p not in sys.path:
                sys.path.append(_p)
    except Exception:
        pass
except Exception:
    pass

def _disabled_input(*args, **kwargs):
    raise RuntimeError("input() is disabled in callable mode")
builtins.input = _disabled_input

ns = {"__name__": "__judge__"}  # prevent if __name__ == "__main__" blocks
for _k, _v in list(globals().items()):
    if not _k.startswith("_"):
        ns[_k] = _v
_CODE = 'class Solution:\n    def longestStrChain(self, words: List[str]) -> int:\n        \n        words.sort(key = len)\n        print(words)\n        solutions = []\n        \n        numWords = len(words)\n        \n        for i in range(numWords):   \n            self.getSequences(words[i+1:], len(words[i]) + 1, [words[i]], words[i], solutions)\n        \n        maxSize = 0\n        \n        for s in solutions:\n            maxSize = max(maxSize, len(s))\n        \n        return maxSize\n        \n    def getSequences(self, words, targetLength, currSequence, lastWord, solutions):\n        \n        numWords = len(words)\n        for i in range(numWords):\n            if len(words[i]) == targetLength:\n                if self.isPredecessor(lastWord, words[i]):\n                    newCurrSequence = currSequence[:]\n                    newCurrSequence.append(words[i])\n                    self.getSequences(words[i+1:], targetLength + 1, newCurrSequence, words[i], solutions)\n                    \n            elif len(words[i]) > targetLength:\n                break\n                \n        if len(solutions) > 0:\n            if len(solutions[0]) < len(currSequence):\n                solutions[0] = currSequence\n        else:\n            solutions.append(currSequence)\n        return\n        \n    def isPredecessor(self, word1, word2):\n        \n        numLetters1 = len(word1)\n        numLetters2 = len(word2)\n        \n        if numLetters2 - numLetters1 != 1:\n            return False\n        \n        p1 = 0\n        p2 = 0\n        count = 0\n        \n        while p1 < numLetters1:\n            if word1[p1] == word2[p2]:\n                p1 += 1\n                p2 += 1\n            elif count == 1:\n                return False\n            else:\n                count += 1\n                p2 += 1\n                \n        return True'
_co = compile(_CODE, USER_FILENAME, "exec")
exec(_co, ns, ns)

_target = None
_fn_name = 'longestStrChain'
if _fn_name:
    if "Solution" in ns:
        try:
            _obj = ns["Solution"]()
            if hasattr(_obj, _fn_name):
                _target = getattr(_obj, _fn_name)
        except Exception:
            _target = None
    if _target is None and _fn_name in ns and callable(ns[_fn_name]):
        _target = ns[_fn_name]
# Fallback: if there's exactly one user-defined function, use it
if _target is None:
    _cands = [v for k, v in ns.items() if callable(v) and getattr(v, "__module__", "") in ("__judge__", "__main__")]
    _user_funcs = [c for c in _cands if getattr(c, "__name__", "").startswith("_") is False]
    if len(_user_funcs) == 1:
        _target = _user_funcs[0]
if _target is None:
    raise RuntimeError(f"Could not resolve callable '{_fn_name}'")

_raw = sys.stdin.read().strip()
if _raw:
    _parsed = json.loads(_raw)
    if isinstance(_parsed, dict):
        _kwargs = _parsed.get("kwargs", {})
        _args = _parsed.get("args", [])
    else:
        _args, _kwargs = _parsed, {}
else:
    _args, _kwargs = [], {}
if not isinstance(_args, (list, tuple)):
    _args = [_args]
_res = _target(*_args, **_kwargs)
try:
    sys.stdout.write(repr(_res) + "\n")
except Exception:
    pass

```

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