diff --git a/src/lib/rule.cpp b/src/lib/rule.cpp
--- a/src/lib/rule.cpp
+++ b/src/lib/rule.cpp
@@ -101,15 +101,12 @@
 void Rule::setDefinition(const Definition &def)
 {
     m_def = def;
-
-    // cache for DefinitionData::wordDelimiters, is accessed VERY often
-    m_wordDelimiter = &DefinitionData::get(m_def.definition())->wordDelimiters;
 }

 bool Rule::load(QXmlStreamReader &reader)
 {
     Q_ASSERT(reader.tokenType() == QXmlStreamReader::StartElement);

     m_attribute = reader.attributes().value(QStringLiteral("attribute")).toString();
     if (reader.name() != QLatin1String("IncludeRules")) // IncludeRules uses this with a different semantic
         m_context.parse(reader.attributes().value(QStringLiteral("context")));
@@ -140,8 +137,11 @@
 void Rule::resolveContext()
 {
     m_context.resolve(m_def.definition());
+
+    // cache for DefinitionData::wordDelimiters, is accessed VERY often
+    m_wordDelimiter = &DefinitionData::get(m_def.definition())->wordDelimiters;
 }

 void Rule::resolveAttributeFormat(Context *lookupContext)
 {
     /**