diff --git a/superset-frontend/temporary_superset_ui/superset-ui/plugins/plugin-chart-word-cloud/src/plugin/buildQuery.ts b/superset-frontend/temporary_superset_ui/superset-ui/plugins/plugin-chart-word-cloud/src/plugin/buildQuery.ts
index b9aa36b5f5013..f47cb36962677 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/temporary_superset_ui/superset-ui/plugins/plugin-chart-word-cloud/src/plugin/buildQuery.ts
+++ b/superset-frontend/temporary_superset_ui/superset-ui/plugins/plugin-chart-word-cloud/src/plugin/buildQuery.ts
@@ -3,9 +3,12 @@ import { WordCloudFormData } from '../types';
 
 export default function buildQuery(formData: WordCloudFormData) {
   // Set the single QueryObject's groupby field with series in formData
+  const { metric, sort_by_metric } = formData;
+
   return buildQueryContext(formData, baseQueryObject => [
     {
       ...baseQueryObject,
+      ...(sort_by_metric && { orderby: [[metric, false]] }),
     },
   ]);
 }
diff --git a/superset-frontend/temporary_superset_ui/superset-ui/plugins/plugin-chart-word-cloud/src/plugin/controlPanel.ts b/superset-frontend/temporary_superset_ui/superset-ui/plugins/plugin-chart-word-cloud/src/plugin/controlPanel.ts
index 4a33633174177..715d9eb120138 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/temporary_superset_ui/superset-ui/plugins/plugin-chart-word-cloud/src/plugin/controlPanel.ts
+++ b/superset-frontend/temporary_superset_ui/superset-ui/plugins/plugin-chart-word-cloud/src/plugin/controlPanel.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,22 @@ const config: ControlPanelConfig = {
     {
       label: t('Query'),
       expanded: true,
-      controlSetRows: [['series'], ['metric'], ['adhoc_filters'], ['row_limit']],
+      controlSetRows: [
+        ['series'],
+        ['metric'],
+        ['adhoc_filters'],
+        ['row_limit'],
+        [
+          {
+            name: 'sort_by_metric',
+            config: {
+              type: 'CheckboxControl',
+              label: t('Sort by metric'),
+              description: t('Whether to sort results by the selected metric in descending order.'),
+            },
+          },
+        ],
+      ],
     },
     {
       label: t('Options'),