Study: Everyone is cheating on Wordle, according to Google search data.
![Wordle Cheat Study Header](https://images.prismic.io/wordfinder/12adf06c-60b4-4ee8-82fd-a34878835a90_wordle-cheat-study-header.jpg?auto=compress,format&rect=0,0,4998,1793&w=800&h=287)
Since The New York Times bought Wordle at the end of January of 2022, cheating has been at an all-time high among Wordle users. Last December, search interest for the question “today’s wordle” on Google was so low it registered a “0” for search popularity, but by February 14, searches for Wordle answers reached peak popularity (registering 100 on Google’s scale from 0–100). Here are some of our findings from a Google Trends exploration of Wordle.
Key findings
- SWILL and AROMA were the words players cheated for most. Both registered 100s on Google’s search popularity scale (0–100). In comparison, on January 4, SIEGE registered a 1 on the scale.
- Wordle cheaters were usually looking up the answers between 7 and 8 a.m.
- The biggest cheaters on Wordle were from New Hampshire.
Cheating has only gotten worse on Wordle
![Search Interest in Wordle Google Trends](https://images.prismic.io/wordfinder/b0a316c9-12da-433f-a145-561c3d6d7e8b_wordle-search-interest-graph-3.png?auto=compress,format&rect=0,0,999,777&w=800&h=622)
Biggest cheaters and the Wordle answers they cheated for:
- New Hampshire: Swill
- Rhode Island (tied): Caulk
- Vermont (tied): Tacit
- Washington, D.C.: Tacit
- Massachusetts: Dodge
- Maine: Dodge and Tacit
Methodology and Limitations
We analyzed Google Trends data over the past three months to see how often Wordle players cheated by looking up answers online.