diff --git a/devel/py-thefuzz/Makefile b/devel/py-thefuzz/Makefile
index de13bffbb2e3..513ec58e815d 100644
--- a/devel/py-thefuzz/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-thefuzz/Makefile
@@ -1,18 +1,20 @@
 PORTNAME=	thefuzz
-PORTVERSION=	0.19.0
+PORTVERSION=	0.20.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	jgh@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Fuzzy string matching in Python
 WWW=		https://github.com/seatgeek/thefuzz
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2
 
+RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}rapidfuzz>=0:devel/py-rapidfuzz@${PY_FLAVOR}
+
 USES=	python
 USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-thefuzz/distinfo b/devel/py-thefuzz/distinfo
index 8609248f87de..2355082d50d8 100644
--- a/devel/py-thefuzz/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-thefuzz/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1652554935
-SHA256 (thefuzz-0.19.0.tar.gz) = 6f7126db2f2c8a54212b05e3a740e45f4291c497d75d20751728f635bb74aa3d
-SIZE (thefuzz-0.19.0.tar.gz) = 28592
+TIMESTAMP = 1700941095
+SHA256 (thefuzz-0.20.0.tar.gz) = a25e49786b1c4603c7fc6e2d69e6bc660982a2919698b536ff8354e0631cc40d
+SIZE (thefuzz-0.20.0.tar.gz) = 25464