Using --getopts to pick up whole word flags

Question

Can getopts be used to pick up whole-word flags?

Something as follows:

while getopts ":abc --word" opt; do
    case ${opt} in
        a) SOMETHING
            ;;
        ...
        --word) echo "Do something else."
            ;;
    esac
done

Trying to pick up those double-dash flags.

Answer 1

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/035 Credit goes to: How can I use long options with the Bash getopts builtin?.