diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/wordninja/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/wordninja/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..69617bc2bafc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/wordninja/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  buildPythonPackage,
+  fetchPypi,
+  setuptools,
+  setuptools-scm,
+  wheel,
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "wordninja";
+  version = "2.0.0";
+  pyproject = true;
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    hash = "sha256-GhzH7BRq0Z1vcZQe6CrvPTEiFwDw2L+EQTbPjfedKBo=";
+  };
+
+  build-system = [
+    setuptools
+    setuptools-scm
+    wheel
+  ];
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "wordninja" ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Probabilistically split concatenated words using NLP based on English Wikipedia unigram frequencies";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/keredson/wordninja";
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ getchoo ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 52499d870da3..ba82cf9c6f99 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -18219,6 +18219,8 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   wordfreq = callPackage ../development/python-modules/wordfreq { };
 
+  wordninja = callPackage ../development/python-modules/wordninja { };
+
   world-bank-data = callPackage ../development/python-modules/world-bank-data { };
 
   worldengine = callPackage ../development/python-modules/worldengine { };