diff --git a/spacy/vocab.pyx b/spacy/vocab.pyx
index bcd1f3c10..1a91c2c0e 100644
--- a/spacy/vocab.pyx
+++ b/spacy/vocab.pyx
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # coding: utf8
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-import bz2
 import ujson
 import re
 import numpy