Is this the hardest week in Wordle history?

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As usual, we're going to be spoiling today's Wordle answerif you read on — so make sure you've solved it first before scrolling on.

Is this the hardest week in Wordle history? If you look at Google Trends this week, with people searching for the Wordle answer, you might think that it's been almost impossibly difficult:

If you followed that graph, and looked at the trending Twitter terms, you'd easily surmise that the WATCH, the answer last Friday, and CATER yesterday were the worst offenders — along with the tricky solution of MOVIE today.

But we spoke to Shaun Savage, editor in chief of Try Hard Guides, a site with its own dedicated Wordle solver pages, and he gave some surprising statistics:

«Today's word [MOVIE] is definitely giving people some challenge. By and far, 56% of people have figured out that the word ends in 'IE' but are struggling to think of words that fit. 

»Following that, about 15% of people have figured out there's at least an O in the word. It seems like the «V» is the most difficult letter to determine! 

«We aren't even seeing too many people looking for „OVIE“ or „MO_IE,“ so it seems many are getting 2-3 letters but getting four is a struggle.

»Our page on '5 letter words' ending in IE' was the most trafficked post this morning — a lot of people like to get ideas but, perhaps, not just get to the answer immediately, so these types of posts help clear away some fog."

So it's clear that today's Wordle was, perhaps, one of the hardest in a while, even if it's not had the same number of players desperately searching for the answer online.

But what about the last seven days as a whole?

With three words this week that trended massively on Twitter (and saw massive spikes in traffic to our Wordle hints and answer