diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/word2vec/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/word2vec/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 58d513adcc47..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/word2vec/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv
-, lib
-, buildPythonPackage
-, fetchPypi
-, fetchzip
-, cython
-, numpy
-, scikit-learn
-, six
-, setuptools-scm
-, gcc
-, pytest
-, pytest-cov
-, isPy27
-}:
-let
-  testData = fetchzip {
-    url = "http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text8.zip";
-    sha256 = "0w3l64bww9znmmvd9cqbfmh3dddnlrjicz43y5qq6fhi9cfqjfar";
-  };
-in
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "word2vec";
-  version = "0.11.1";
-  disabled = isPy27;
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "222d8ffb47f385c43eba45e3f308e605fc9736b2b7137d74979adf1a31e7c8b4";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ setuptools-scm gcc ];
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ cython numpy scikit-learn six ];
-
-  nativeCheckInputs = [ pytest pytest-cov ];
-
-  # Checks require test data downloaded separately
-  # See project source Makefile:test-data rule for reference
-  checkPhase = ''
-    PATH=$PATH:$out/bin
-    mkdir data
-    head -c 100000 ${testData}/text8 > data/text8-small
-    pytest
-  '';
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    broken = stdenv.isDarwin;
-    description = "Tool for computing continuous distributed representations of words";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/danielfrg/word2vec";
-    license = licenses.asl20;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ NikolaMandic ];
-  };
-
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index fb1883efa63b..c9d0febd30c1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -318,6 +318,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   weakrefmethod = throw "weakrefmethod was removed since it's not needed in Python >= 3.4"; # added 2022-12-01
   webapp2 = throw "webapp2 is unmaintained since 2012"; # added 2022-05-29
   websocket_client = websocket-client; # added 2021-06-15
+  word2vec = throw "word2vec has been removed because it is abandoned"; # added 2023-05-22
   wxPython_4_0 = throw "wxPython_4_0 has been removed, use wxPython_4_2 instead"; # added 2023-03-19
   wxPython_4_1 = throw "wxPython_4_1 has been removed, use wxPython_4_2 instead"; # added 2023-03-19
   WSME = wsme; # added 2023-02-19
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index b0582347de26..68e3ddbacba7 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -12970,8 +12970,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   woodblock = callPackage ../development/python-modules/woodblock { };
 
-  word2vec = callPackage ../development/python-modules/word2vec { };
-
   wordcloud = callPackage ../development/python-modules/wordcloud { };
 
   wordfreq = callPackage ../development/python-modules/wordfreq { };