diff --git a/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/synonym/word2vec/Word2VecSynonymFilter.java b/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/synonym/word2vec/Word2VecSynonymFilter.java
index 6088d8d6efc9..e9ef6fd735c0 100644
--- a/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/synonym/word2vec/Word2VecSynonymFilter.java
+++ b/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/synonym/word2vec/Word2VecSynonymFilter.java
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.TypeAttribute;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRefBuilder;
-import org.apache.lucene.util.TermAndBoost;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.QueryBuilder.TermAndBoost;
 
 /**
  * Applies single-token synonyms from a Word2Vec trained network to an incoming {@link TokenStream}.
diff --git a/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/synonym/word2vec/Word2VecSynonymProvider.java b/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/synonym/word2vec/Word2VecSynonymProvider.java
index 4660879922e3..d462bb9d21f1 100644
--- a/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/synonym/word2vec/Word2VecSynonymProvider.java
+++ b/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/synonym/word2vec/Word2VecSynonymProvider.java
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.VectorEncoding;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.VectorSimilarityFunction;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
-import org.apache.lucene.util.TermAndBoost;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.QueryBuilder.TermAndBoost;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.hnsw.HnswGraphBuilder;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.hnsw.HnswGraphSearcher;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.hnsw.NeighborQueue;
diff --git a/lucene/analysis/common/src/test/org/apache/lucene/analysis/synonym/word2vec/TestWord2VecSynonymProvider.java b/lucene/analysis/common/src/test/org/apache/lucene/analysis/synonym/word2vec/TestWord2VecSynonymProvider.java
index 0803406bdafa..a6324c44ca34 100644
--- a/lucene/analysis/common/src/test/org/apache/lucene/analysis/synonym/word2vec/TestWord2VecSynonymProvider.java
+++ b/lucene/analysis/common/src/test/org/apache/lucene/analysis/synonym/word2vec/TestWord2VecSynonymProvider.java
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 import java.util.List;
 import org.apache.lucene.tests.util.LuceneTestCase;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
-import org.apache.lucene.util.TermAndBoost;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.QueryBuilder.TermAndBoost;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.TermAndVector;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/QueryBuilder.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/QueryBuilder.java
index adf30baec294..3ad17dca5ce9 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/QueryBuilder.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/QueryBuilder.java
@@ -62,6 +62,20 @@ public class QueryBuilder {
   protected boolean enableGraphQueries = true;
   protected boolean autoGenerateMultiTermSynonymsPhraseQuery = false;
 
+  /** Wraps a term and boost */
+  public static class TermAndBoost {
+    /** the term */
+    public final BytesRef term;
+    /** the boost */
+    public final float boost;
+
+    /** Creates a new TermAndBoost */
+    public TermAndBoost(BytesRef term, float boost) {
+      this.term = BytesRef.deepCopyOf(term);
+      this.boost = boost;
+    }
+  }
+
   /** Creates a new QueryBuilder using the given analyzer. */
   public QueryBuilder(Analyzer analyzer) {
     this.analyzer = analyzer;
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/TermAndBoost.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/TermAndBoost.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c7958a99a08..000000000000
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/TermAndBoost.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
- * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-package org.apache.lucene.util;
-
-/** Wraps a term and boost */
-public class TermAndBoost {
-  /** the term */
-  public final BytesRef term;
-  /** the boost */
-  public final float boost;
-
-  /** Creates a new TermAndBoost */
-  public TermAndBoost(BytesRef term, float boost) {
-    this.term = BytesRef.deepCopyOf(term);
-    this.boost = boost;
-  }
-}