Abstract: There has been a lot of confusion about the nature of restacked MoS₂ and WS₂. The structure has been proposed to be trigonal TiS₂ type with octahedral M⁴⁺ and called 1T-MoS₂. The presence of a distortion in the metal plane which gives rise to a superstructure has been suggested. We have performed electron crystallographic studies on small (sub micron) single crystal domains of restacked WS₂ and MoS₂ in order to solve their superstructure. We find that what initially seems to be a trigonal crystal is actually a "triplet" of three individual orthorhombic crystals. Using two-dimensional hk0 data from films for both "triple" and "single" crystals we calculated corresponding Patterson projections, which reveal a severe distortion in the Mo/W plane, forming infinite zigzag chains. The projection of the structure suggests M-M distances of 2.92 Å and 2.74 Å for MoS₂ and WS₂, respectively. Least squares refinement from the single crystal data gives R₁=13.3% for WS₂ and R₁=15.3% for MoS₂. Therefore, we submit that restacked MoS₂ and WS₂ are not 1T-form but rather WTe₂ type.