diff --git a/dev-python/Levenshtein/Levenshtein-0.23.0.ebuild b/dev-python/Levenshtein/Levenshtein-0.23.0.ebuild
index 1083c9daa5e3c..1d355fdcba0ee 100644
--- a/dev-python/Levenshtein/Levenshtein-0.23.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/Levenshtein/Levenshtein-0.23.0.ebuild
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86"
 
 DEPEND="
+	<dev-cpp/rapidfuzz-cpp-3
 	>=dev-cpp/rapidfuzz-cpp-2.0.0
 "
 RDEPEND="