Prefix frequency in string List - Python

a = ["geeks", "geeksforgeeks", "geeky", "geek", "apple", "banana"]
# Prefix to match
prefix = "geeks"
# Initialize count
count = 0
# Loop through the list and check
# if each word starts with the given prefix
for word in a:
    if word.startswith(prefix):
        count += 1
print(f"The prefix '{prefix}' appears {count} times.")

a = ["geeks", "geeksforgeeks", "geeky", "geek", "apple", "banana"]
# Prefix to match
prefix = "geeks"
# Using list comprehension to count 
# words starting with the given prefix
count = len([word for word in a if word.startswith(prefix)])
print(f"The prefix '{prefix}' appears {count} times.")

a = ["geeks", "geeksforgeeks", "geeky", "geek", "apple", "banana"]
# Prefix to match
prefix = "geeks"
# Using filter to count words starting with the given prefix
count = len(list(filter(lambda word: word.startswith(prefix), a)))
print(f"The prefix '{prefix}' appears {count} times.")

from collections import Counter
a = ["geeks", "geeksforgeeks", "geeky", "geek", "apple", "banana"]
# Prefix to match
prefix = "geeks"
# Count all prefixes in the list
prefixes = [word[:len(prefix)] for word in a]  # Extract the prefixes
prefix_count = Counter(prefixes)
# Get the count for the desired prefix
count = prefix_count[prefix]
print(f"The prefix '{prefix}' appears {count} times.")