diff --git a/spacy/tokenizer.pyx b/spacy/tokenizer.pyx
index de3e2fd95..ec3394861 100644
--- a/spacy/tokenizer.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokenizer.pyx
@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ cdef class Tokenizer:
             return
         # only reload if all 4 of prefix, suffix, infix, token_match have
         # have been initialized
-        if self.vocab is not None and self._property_init_count >= 4:
+        if self.vocab is not None and self._property_init_count >= self._property_init_max:
             self._flush_cache()
             self._flush_specials()
             self._load_special_cases(self._rules)