diff --git a/src/data/cmudict.jl b/src/data/cmudict.jl
index a23c6a3d..9ec567b4 100644
--- a/src/data/cmudict.jl
+++ b/src/data/cmudict.jl
@@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ function rawdict()
        filter(!isempty, split.(split(readstring(deps("CMUDict", "cmudict")), "\n"))))
 end
 
-# validword(s) = ismatch(r"^[\w-\.]+$", s)
-validword(s) = ismatch(r"^\[\w-\.\]+$", s)
+validword(s) = ismatch(r"^[\w\-\.]+$", s)
 
 cmudict() = filter((s, ps) -> validword(s), rawdict())