diff --git a/.github/scripts/codespell.sh b/.github/scripts/codespell.sh
index 0bede46e16..8e8ccf6820 100755
--- a/.github/scripts/codespell.sh
+++ b/.github/scripts/codespell.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@ codespell \
   --skip '*/tool_hugehelp.c' \
   --skip 'packages/*' \
   --skip '*/test*' \
-  --ignore-regex '.*spellchecker:disable' \
+  --ignore-regex '.*spellchecker:disable-line' \
   --ignore-words '.github/scripts/codespell-ignore.txt' \
   $(git ls-files)
diff --git a/.github/scripts/typos.toml b/.github/scripts/typos.toml
index f6c537b5dc..03626cade7 100644
--- a/.github/scripts/typos.toml
+++ b/.github/scripts/typos.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ extend-ignore-identifiers-re = [
 ]
 
 extend-ignore-re = [
-  ".*spellchecker:disable",
+  ".*spellchecker:disable-line",
 ]
 
 [files]
diff --git a/lib/vtls/cipher_suite.c b/lib/vtls/cipher_suite.c
index 80a124599a..9d2f523581 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" /* spellchecker:disable-line */
   "GCM" "\0"
   "MD5" "\0"
   "NULL" "\0"
diff --git a/tests/libtest/lib557.c b/tests/libtest/lib557.c
index b38a9df551..097f4845c0 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"); /* spellchecker:disable-line */
 
   curl_msnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%*.*s", 2, 5, "foo");
   errors += string_check(buf, "foo");