Most Frequent Letter Count

Determine the frequency of the most common letter in a string.

Easy12/15/2023

Problem statement

Write a program that accepts a string and returns the frequency of the most frequent letter in the string. The input string will only contain lowercase letters. If two or more letters have the same highest frequency, return the frequency of any one of them.

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