diff --git a/qurator/dinglehopper/word_error_rate.py b/qurator/dinglehopper/word_error_rate.py
index dde57b9..64b40d2 100644
--- a/qurator/dinglehopper/word_error_rate.py
+++ b/qurator/dinglehopper/word_error_rate.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from multimethod import multimethod
 
 import uniseg.wordbreak
 
-from .edit_distance import levenshtein
+from rapidfuzz.string_metric import levenshtein
 from . import ExtractedText