diff --git a/mwparserfromhell/parser/tokenizer.c b/mwparserfromhell/parser/tokenizer.c
index 18972aa..a8c69e7 100644
--- a/mwparserfromhell/parser/tokenizer.c
+++ b/mwparserfromhell/parser/tokenizer.c
@@ -1452,7 +1452,7 @@ init_tokenizer(void)
     Py_DECREF(htmlentitydefs);
 
     unsigned numdefs = (unsigned) PyDict_Size(defmap);
-    entitydefs = malloc(numdefs * sizeof(char*));
+    entitydefs = calloc(numdefs + 1, sizeof(char*));
     PyObject* deflist = PyDict_Keys(defmap);
     if (!deflist) return;
     Py_DECREF(defmap);