diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/diction/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/diction/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..51366c36bc61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/diction/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "diction-1.11";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://gnu/diction/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1xi4l1x1vvzmzmbhpx0ghmfnwwrhabjwizrpyylmy3fzinzz3him";
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "GNU style and diction utilities";
+    longDescription = ''
+      Diction and style are two old standard Unix commands. Diction identifies
+      wordy and commonly misused phrases. Style analyses surface
+      characteristics of a document, including sentence length and other
+      readability measures.
+    '';
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index edaab187b4c8..331879971e35 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1384,6 +1384,8 @@ let
 
   di = callPackage ../tools/system/di { };
 
+  diction = callPackage ../tools/text/diction { };
+
   diffoscope = callPackage ../tools/misc/diffoscope {
     jdk = jdk7;
     pythonPackages = python3Packages;