Letters Shared Between Two Words

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Create a function that returns the number of characters shared between two words.

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shared_letters("apple", "meaty") ➞ 2
# Since "ea" is shared between "apple" and "meaty".

shared_letters("fan", "forsook") ➞ 1

shared_letters("spout", "shout") ➞ 4

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