diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/cmudict/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/cmudict/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..552bc26e63e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/cmudict/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  buildPythonPackage,
+  fetchPypi,
+  pythonOlder,
+  poetry-core,
+  importlib-metadata,
+  importlib-resources,
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "cmudict";
+  version = "1.1.1";
+  pyproject = true;
+
+  disabled = pythonOlder "3.9";
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    hash = "sha256-I8ORTIVGX2p9JtLYl0+jQd17ySTR/6UBtBQGuTaSPbE=";
+  };
+
+  build-system = [
+    poetry-core
+  ];
+
+  dependencies = [
+    importlib-metadata
+    importlib-resources
+  ];
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [
+    "cmudict"
+  ];
+
+  meta = {
+    changelog = "https://github.com/prosegrinder/python-cmudict/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md";
+    description = "A versioned python wrapper package for The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary data files";
+    homepage = "https://pypi.org/project/cmudict/";
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl3Only;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ sandarukasa ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 9ebff811a85c..a815f476d18f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2720,6 +2720,8 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   cmsis-svd = callPackage ../development/python-modules/cmsis-svd { };
 
+  cmudict = callPackage ../development/python-modules/cmudict { };
+
   cnvkit = callPackage ../development/python-modules/cnvkit { };
 
   co2signal = callPackage ../development/python-modules/co2signal { };