Top k most frequent in Rust

Rust interview exercise on Practical, difficulty 3 of 3. Solve it in the editor beside a worked example, or cold in Interview mode with the example hidden; the tests run the moment you do.

Write top_k_frequent(words, k) that returns the k most frequent words, most frequent first, with ties broken alphabetically. A HashMap iterates in no particular order, so the sort has to decide everything.

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