diff --git a/devel/Makefile b/devel/Makefile
index 234f938ef782..ea5629ee1173 100644
--- a/devel/Makefile
+++ b/devel/Makefile
@@ -5461,6 +5461,7 @@
     SUBDIR += rang
     SUBDIR += range-v3
     SUBDIR += rapidcheck
+    SUBDIR += rapidfuzz-cpp
     SUBDIR += rapidjson
     SUBDIR += raylib
     SUBDIR += rbenv
diff --git a/devel/rapidfuzz-cpp/Makefile b/devel/rapidfuzz-cpp/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7eba23bbf53e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/rapidfuzz-cpp/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+PORTNAME=	rapidfuzz-cpp
+PORTVERSION=	g20210820
+CATEGORIES=	devel
+
+MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
+COMMENT=	Rapid fuzzy string matching in C++ using the levenshtein distance
+
+LICENSE=	MIT
+LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
+
+TEST_DEPENDS=	catch>0:devel/catch
+
+USES=		cmake:testing compiler:c++11-lib
+
+CMAKE_TESTING_ON=	BUILD_TESTS # tests care broken because they expect yet unreleased catch-3.0.0 which is currently a preview version.
+
+USE_GITHUB=	yes
+GH_ACCOUNT=	maxbachmann
+GH_TAGNAME=	47df6f7
+
+NO_ARCH=	yes
+
+.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/rapidfuzz-cpp/distinfo b/devel/rapidfuzz-cpp/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7ad69c41ec7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/rapidfuzz-cpp/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+TIMESTAMP = 1629529470
+SHA256 (maxbachmann-rapidfuzz-cpp-g20210820-47df6f7_GH0.tar.gz) = 6eb5d30f7cc79d8d26ac0c2b6c6d9785e6ec9e136761925d0593060a9dea3b40
+SIZE (maxbachmann-rapidfuzz-cpp-g20210820-47df6f7_GH0.tar.gz) = 100013
diff --git a/devel/rapidfuzz-cpp/pkg-descr b/devel/rapidfuzz-cpp/pkg-descr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ea56481ac180
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/rapidfuzz-cpp/pkg-descr
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+RapidFuzz is a fast string matching library for Python and C++, which is using
+the string similarity calculations from FuzzyWuzzy.
+
+WWW: https://github.com/maxbachmann/rapidfuzz-cpp
diff --git a/devel/rapidfuzz-cpp/pkg-plist b/devel/rapidfuzz-cpp/pkg-plist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b1955c3240a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/rapidfuzz-cpp/pkg-plist
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+include/SplittedSentenceView.hpp
+include/common.hpp
+include/common_impl.hpp
+include/fuzz.hpp
+include/fuzz_impl.hpp
+include/generic_levenshtein_impl.hpp
+include/levenshtein_impl.hpp
+include/matching_blocks.hpp
+include/rapidfuzz/details/SplittedSentenceView.hpp
+include/rapidfuzz/details/common.hpp
+include/rapidfuzz/details/common_impl.hpp
+include/rapidfuzz/details/matching_blocks.hpp
+include/rapidfuzz/details/string_metrics/generic_levenshtein_impl.hpp
+include/rapidfuzz/details/string_metrics/jaro_impl.hpp
+include/rapidfuzz/details/string_metrics/levenshtein_editops_impl.hpp
+include/rapidfuzz/details/string_metrics/levenshtein_impl.hpp
+include/rapidfuzz/details/string_metrics/weighted_levenshtein_impl.hpp
+include/rapidfuzz/details/string_view.hpp
+include/rapidfuzz/details/type_traits.hpp
+include/rapidfuzz/details/types.hpp
+include/rapidfuzz/details/unicode.cpp
+include/rapidfuzz/details/unicode.hpp
+include/rapidfuzz/details/unicodetype_db.h
+include/rapidfuzz/fuzz.hpp
+include/rapidfuzz/fuzz_impl.hpp
+include/rapidfuzz/rapidfuzz_all.hpp
+include/rapidfuzz/string_metric.hpp
+include/rapidfuzz/utils.hpp
+include/rapidfuzz/utils_impl.hpp
+include/string_metric.hpp
+include/string_view.hpp
+include/type_traits.hpp
+include/types.hpp
+include/unicode.hpp
+include/utils.hpp
+include/utils_impl.hpp
+include/weighted_levenshtein_impl.hpp