diff --git a/nltk/corpus/__init__.py b/nltk/corpus/__init__.py
index 14b1ea23ef..cb40b4e2c0 100644
--- a/nltk/corpus/__init__.py
+++ b/nltk/corpus/__init__.py
@@ -359,17 +359,17 @@
 wordnet = LazyCorpusLoader(
     "wordnet",
     WordNetCorpusReader,
-    LazyCorpusLoader("omw", CorpusReader, r".*/wn-data-.*\.tab", encoding="utf8"),
+    LazyCorpusLoader("omw-1.4", CorpusReader, r".*/wn-data-.*\.tab", encoding="utf8"),
 )
 wordnet31 = LazyCorpusLoader(
     "wordnet31",
     WordNetCorpusReader,
-    LazyCorpusLoader("omw", CorpusReader, r".*/wn-data-.*\.tab", encoding="utf8"),
+    LazyCorpusLoader("omw-1.4", CorpusReader, r".*/wn-data-.*\.tab", encoding="utf8"),
 )
 wordnet2021 = LazyCorpusLoader(
     "wordnet2021",
     WordNetCorpusReader,
-    LazyCorpusLoader("omw", CorpusReader, r".*/wn-data-.*\.tab", encoding="utf8"),
+    LazyCorpusLoader("omw-1.4", CorpusReader, r".*/wn-data-.*\.tab", encoding="utf8"),
 )
 wordnet_ic = LazyCorpusLoader("wordnet_ic", WordNetICCorpusReader, r".*\.dat")
 words = LazyCorpusLoader(