A Wordle a Day: What Does it Portray?
What happened on February 11th, 2022 that caused the word 'ulcer’ to spike to the single highest daily search frequency it has ever seen on Google?1
Was it a global epidemic of nasty mouth sores? Maybe a glitch in Google Trend’s code? The answer may surprise you — it was the Wordle word-of-the-day.
Wordle, a viral web-based word game created by Josh Wardle, has already cemented itself in the 2022 timeline as an international cultural phenomenon. In the past 4 months, Wordle has captured the attention of the internet and The New York Times, who purchased Wordle for an undisclosed price “in the low seven figures”. Just in the first two weeks of 2022, over 1.2 million Wordle results were shared on Twitter.2 Wordle has been adapted to over 45 different languages. To have maintained ...