diff --git a/src/wp-settings.php b/src/wp-settings.php
index 6b1f32bbff..eb632238f0 100644
--- a/src/wp-settings.php
+++ b/src/wp-settings.php
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-wp-list-util.php' );
 require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/formatting.php' );
 require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/meta.php' );
 require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/functions.php' );
+require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-wp-meta-query.php' );
 require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-wp-matchesmapregex.php' );
 require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-wp.php' );
 require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-wp-error.php' );
@@ -159,7 +160,6 @@ require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/user.php' );
 require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-wp-user-query.php' );
 require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-wp-session-tokens.php' );
 require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-wp-user-meta-session-tokens.php' );
-require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-wp-meta-query.php' );
 require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-wp-metadata-lazyloader.php' );
 require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/general-template.php' );
 require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/link-template.php' );