diff --git a/src/chart_types/wordcloud/state/chart_state.tsx b/src/chart_types/wordcloud/state/chart_state.tsx
index eab2c58927..ee29634f01 100644
--- a/src/chart_types/wordcloud/state/chart_state.tsx
+++ b/src/chart_types/wordcloud/state/chart_state.tsx
@@ -22,18 +22,16 @@ import React from 'react';
 import { ChartTypes } from '../..';
 import { DEFAULT_CSS_CURSOR } from '../../../common/constants';
 import { LegendItem } from '../../../common/legend';
-import { Tooltip } from '../../../components/tooltip';
-import { InternalChartState, GlobalChartState, BackwardRef } from '../../../state/chart_state';
+import { InternalChartState, GlobalChartState } from '../../../state/chart_state';
 import { InitStatus } from '../../../state/selectors/get_internal_is_intialized';
 import { LegendItemLabel } from '../../../state/selectors/get_legend_items_labels';
 import { DebugState } from '../../../state/types';
 import { Dimensions } from '../../../utils/dimensions';
+import { EMPTY_TOOLTIP } from '../../partition_chart/layout/viewmodel/tooltip_info';
 import { Wordcloud } from '../renderer/svg/connected_component';
-import { isTooltipVisibleSelector } from './selectors/is_tooltip_visible';
 import { createOnElementClickCaller } from './selectors/on_element_click_caller';
 import { createOnElementOutCaller } from './selectors/on_element_out_caller';
 import { createOnElementOverCaller } from './selectors/on_element_over_caller';
-import { getTooltipInfoSelector } from './selectors/tooltip';
 import { getSpecOrNull } from './selectors/wordcloud_spec';
 
 const EMPTY_MAP = new Map();
@@ -84,25 +82,20 @@ export class WordcloudState implements InternalChartState {
     return EMPTY_MAP;
   }
 
-  chartRenderer(containerRef: BackwardRef) {
-    return (
-      <>
-        <Tooltip getChartContainerRef={containerRef} />
-        <Wordcloud />
-      </>
-    );
+  chartRenderer() {
+    return <Wordcloud />;
   }
 
   getPointerCursor() {
     return DEFAULT_CSS_CURSOR;
   }
 
-  isTooltipVisible(globalState: GlobalChartState) {
-    return { visible: isTooltipVisibleSelector(globalState), isExternal: false };
+  isTooltipVisible() {
+    return { visible: false, isExternal: false };
   }
 
-  getTooltipInfo(globalState: GlobalChartState) {
-    return getTooltipInfoSelector(globalState);
+  getTooltipInfo() {
+    return EMPTY_TOOLTIP;
   }
 
   getTooltipAnchor(state: GlobalChartState) {
diff --git a/src/chart_types/wordcloud/state/selectors/is_tooltip_visible.ts b/src/chart_types/wordcloud/state/selectors/is_tooltip_visible.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 1c3c0d0fb3..0000000000
--- a/src/chart_types/wordcloud/state/selectors/is_tooltip_visible.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
- * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright
- * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you under
- * the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
- * not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-
-import createCachedSelector from 're-reselect';
-
-import { getTooltipType } from '../../../../specs';
-import { TooltipType } from '../../../../specs/constants';
-import { getChartIdSelector } from '../../../../state/selectors/get_chart_id';
-import { getSettingsSpecSelector } from '../../../../state/selectors/get_settings_specs';
-import { getTooltipInfoSelector } from './tooltip';
-
-/** @internal */
-export const isTooltipVisibleSelector = createCachedSelector(
-  [getSettingsSpecSelector, getTooltipInfoSelector],
-  (settingsSpec, tooltipInfo): boolean => {
-    if (getTooltipType(settingsSpec) === TooltipType.None) {
-      return false;
-    }
-    return tooltipInfo.values.length > 0;
-  },
-)(getChartIdSelector);
diff --git a/src/chart_types/wordcloud/state/selectors/tooltip.ts b/src/chart_types/wordcloud/state/selectors/tooltip.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 37bf8ea814..0000000000
--- a/src/chart_types/wordcloud/state/selectors/tooltip.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
- * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright
- * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you under
- * the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
- * not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-
-import createCachedSelector from 're-reselect';
-
-import { TooltipInfo } from '../../../../components/tooltip/types';
-import { getPickedShapes } from './picked_shapes';
-import { getSpecOrNull } from './wordcloud_spec';
-
-const EMPTY_TOOLTIP = Object.freeze({
-  header: null,
-  values: [],
-});
-
-/** @internal */
-export const getTooltipInfoSelector = createCachedSelector(
-  [getSpecOrNull, getPickedShapes],
-  (spec, pickedShapes): TooltipInfo => {
-    if (!spec) {
-      return EMPTY_TOOLTIP;
-    }
-
-    const tooltipInfo: TooltipInfo = {
-      header: null,
-      values: [],
-    };
-
-    pickedShapes.forEach((shape) => {
-      tooltipInfo.values.push({
-        label: 'Word count',
-        color: 'white',
-        isHighlighted: false,
-        isVisible: true,
-        seriesIdentifier: {
-          specId: spec.id,
-          key: spec.id,
-        },
-        value: shape.data.length,
-        formattedValue: `${shape.data.length}`,
-      });
-    });
-
-    return tooltipInfo;
-  },
-)((state) => state.chartId);