diff --git a/tests/test_queries.py b/tests/test_queries.py
index a86f6e8..8b44a23 100644
--- a/tests/test_queries.py
+++ b/tests/test_queries.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 from nose.tools import eq_, assert_almost_equal, assert_greater
-from wordfreq.query import (word_frequency, average_frequency, wordlist_size,
+from wordfreq import word_frequency
+from wordfreq.query import (average_frequency, wordlist_size,
                             wordlist_info)
 
 
diff --git a/wordfreq/__init__.py b/wordfreq/__init__.py
index 0768d0d..959be05 100644
--- a/wordfreq/__init__.py
+++ b/wordfreq/__init__.py
@@ -1,2 +1,16 @@
-# Import some methods from wordfreq.query at the top level.
-from wordfreq.query import word_frequency, iter_wordlist, random_words
+# Make wordfreq.query available at the top level when needed.
+
+def word_frequency(word, lang, wordlist='multi', offset=0.):
+    """
+    Get the frequency of `word` in the language with code `lang`, from the
+    specified `wordlist`.
+
+    The offset gets added to all values, to monotonically account for the
+    fact that we have not observed all possible words.
+
+    This is a wrapper for the real word_frequency function, so that it can
+    be imported at the top level instead of from `wordfreq.query`.
+    """
+    from wordfreq.query import word_frequency as _real_word_frequency
+    return _real_word_frequency(word, lang, wordlist=wordlist, offset=offset)
+