diff --git a/pythainlp/tokenize/deepcut.py b/pythainlp/tokenize/deepcut.py
index cbf621aa4..ee3f49f07 100644
--- a/pythainlp/tokenize/deepcut.py
+++ b/pythainlp/tokenize/deepcut.py
@@ -24,7 +24,10 @@
 
 from typing import List, Union
 
-from deepcut import tokenize
+try:
+    from deepcut import tokenize
+except ImportError:
+    raise ImportError("Please install deepcut by pip install deepcut")
 from pythainlp.util import Trie