diff --git a/.changeset/thirty-dodos-doubt.md b/.changeset/thirty-dodos-doubt.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f85222f74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/thirty-dodos-doubt.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@ethereum-waffle/chai": patch
+---
+
+Switch hardhat error priority
diff --git a/waffle-chai/src/matchers/revertedWith.ts b/waffle-chai/src/matchers/revertedWith.ts
index 28178f195..e6d3ff69d 100644
--- a/waffle-chai/src/matchers/revertedWith.ts
+++ b/waffle-chai/src/matchers/revertedWith.ts
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ export function supportRevertedWith(Assertion: Chai.AssertionStatic) {
 const errorInterface = new ethers.utils.Interface(['function Error(string)']);
 const decodeHardhatError = (error: any, context: any) => {
   const tryDecode = (error: any) => {
+    if (error === undefined) {
+      return undefined;
+    }
     if (
       error?.errorName &&
       /**
@@ -119,7 +122,9 @@ const decodeHardhatError = (error: any, context: any) => {
     return undefined;
   };
 
-  return tryDecode(error) ?? tryDecode(error.error); // the error may be wrapped
+  return tryDecode(error.error?.error) ??
+    tryDecode(error.error) ??
+    tryDecode(error); // the error may be wrapped
 };
 
 const decodeOptimismError = (error: any) => {