diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index f52721e..ab26bd0 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 export(key_collision_merge)
 export(n_gram_merge)
+import(stringdist)
 importFrom(Rcpp,sourceCpp)
 importFrom(stringi,stri_trans_general)
 useDynLib(refinr)
diff --git a/R/refinr.R b/R/refinr.R
index 50f7e48..923357c 100644
--- a/R/refinr.R
+++ b/R/refinr.R
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #' }
 #'
 #' @useDynLib refinr
+#' @import stringdist
 #' @importFrom Rcpp sourceCpp
 #' @importFrom stringi stri_trans_general
 #' @docType package