diff --git a/wasmtime-api/src/wasm.rs b/wasmtime-api/src/wasm.rs
index 356466f0acf6..71aee96bda6e 100644
--- a/wasmtime-api/src/wasm.rs
+++ b/wasmtime-api/src/wasm.rs
@@ -858,6 +858,11 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn wasm_valtype_new(kind: wasm_valkind_t) -> *mut wasm_val
     Box::into_raw(ty)
 }
 
+#[no_mangle]
+pub unsafe extern "C" fn wasm_valtype_delete(vt: *mut wasm_valtype_t) {
+    drop(Box::from_raw(vt));
+}
+
 #[no_mangle]
 pub unsafe extern "C" fn wasm_byte_vec_new(
     out: *mut wasm_byte_vec_t,