Index: graphspell/spellchecker.py
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--- graphspell/spellchecker.py
+++ graphspell/spellchecker.py
@@ -148,11 +148,11 @@
         """count word occurrences.
            <dWord> can be used to cumulate count from several texts."""
         if not self.oTokenizer:
             self._loadTokenizer()
         for dToken in self.oTokenizer.genTokens(sText):
-            if dToken['sType'] == "WORD":
+            if dToken['sType'].startswith("WORD"):
                 if bOnlyUnknownWords:
                     if not self.isValidToken(dToken['sValue']):
                         dWord[dToken['sValue']] = dWord.get(dToken['sValue'], 0) + 1
                 else:
                     if not bByLemma: