diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 037f736..114e4ce 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 discord.py==1.3.3
-nltk==3.5
+nltk==3.9
 PyDictionary==1.5.2
 python-dotenv==0.13.0
 wordnet==0.0.1b2