diff --git a/src/transformers/generation/stopping_criteria.py b/src/transformers/generation/stopping_criteria.py
index 56b8466830b52d..73418d388073fd 100644
--- a/src/transformers/generation/stopping_criteria.py
+++ b/src/transformers/generation/stopping_criteria.py
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ def get_matching_positions(vocab, stop_strings):
                 matching_positions = []
                 possible_end_lengths = []
                 for i in range(1 - len(token), len(stop_string)):
-                    tok = token[::-1].replace("▁", " ")
+                    tok = token[::-1].replace("▁", " ").replace("Ġ", " ")
                     stop = stop_string[::-1]
                     if i < 0:
                         tok = tok[-i:]