diff --git a/.github/scripts/codespell.sh b/.github/scripts/codespell.sh
index a81bc77c9c..c4adf58cee 100755
--- a/.github/scripts/codespell.sh
+++ b/.github/scripts/codespell.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,5 @@ codespell \
   --skip '*/tool_hugehelp.c' \
   --skip 'packages/*' \
   --skip '*/test*' \
-  --ignore-regex '.*spellchecker: disable' \
   --ignore-words '.github/scripts/codespell-ignore.txt' \
   $(git ls-files)
diff --git a/lib/vtls/cipher_suite.c b/lib/vtls/cipher_suite.c
index 849cb3afe9..833c28a11c 100644
--- a/lib/vtls/cipher_suite.c
+++ b/lib/vtls/cipher_suite.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static const char *cs_txt =
   "ECDH" "\0"
   "ECDHE" "\0"
   "ECDSA" "\0"
-  "EDE" "\0" /* spellchecker: disable */
+  "EDE" "\0" /* codespell:ignore */
   "GCM" "\0"
   "MD5" "\0"
   "NULL" "\0"
diff --git a/tests/libtest/lib557.c b/tests/libtest/lib557.c
index bfd6ab3be3..bac0f876eb 100644
--- a/tests/libtest/lib557.c
+++ b/tests/libtest/lib557.c
@@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@ static int test_string_formatting(void)
   errors += string_check(buf, "09foo");
 
   curl_msnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%*.*s", 5, 2, "foo");
-  errors += string_check(buf, "   fo"); /* spellchecker: disable */
+  errors += string_check(buf, "   fo"); /* codespell:ignore */
 
   curl_msnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%*.*s", 2, 5, "foo");
   errors += string_check(buf, "foo");