The 10 Hardest World Words of 2022
Back when Wordle was at the absolute peak of its popularity, social media would go ballistic if that day’s Wordle was a doozy. But what was the toughest Worldle of 2022?
This is precisely what gaming site im-a-puzzle attempted to figure out, trawling through data stored in a Twitter API called WordleStats. How does it work? Well, remember when absolutely everyone was posting their Wordle attempts on Twitter? WordleStats has been collecting that data, and calculating difficulty based on the relative success and failure of each puzzle.
So what were the hardest words? According to the numbers they are…
- parer
- FOYER
- CATCH
- WATCH
- MUMMY
- CATER
- COYLY
- TRITE
- FOUND
- TACIT
And to be honest? Some of these check out. A number of them — like FOYER or TACIT — feel like words I’d accidentally spell incorrectly. Others like PARER barely feel like words that actually exist. All of them, outside maybe CATER or FOUND, feel like words that might be difficult to solve using traditional Wordle techniques (loading up on vowels early, for example.)
But we absolutely have to take this study with the proverbial grain of salt. Especially given that it was based on users posting on Twitter. It’s very possible that more people failed on less obvious words that we didn’t post on Twitter. Or that people were more likely to post successes if the word