diff --git a/measurements/word_length/word_length.py b/measurements/word_length/word_length.py
index 5b31cd2d..873fa3c9 100644
--- a/measurements/word_length/word_length.py
+++ b/measurements/word_length/word_length.py
@@ -20,6 +20,12 @@
 import evaluate
 
 
+if evaluate.config.PY_VERSION < version.parse("3.8"):
+    import importlib_metadata
+else:
+    import importlib.metadata as importlib_metadata
+
+
 NLTK_VERSION = version.parse(importlib_metadata.version("nltk"))
 
 _DESCRIPTION = """