diff --git a/.github/actions/spelling/excludes.txt b/.github/actions/spelling/excludes.txt
index f4d48215d..d9ffbf6b6 100644
--- a/.github/actions/spelling/excludes.txt
+++ b/.github/actions/spelling/excludes.txt
@@ -88,3 +88,7 @@
 ^docs/ca
 ^docs/es
 ^docs/pt
+\.editorconfig$
+^\.github/workflows/
+\.gitignore$
+\.node-version$
diff --git a/.github/actions/spelling/expect.txt b/.github/actions/spelling/expect.txt
index 5142c783c..e8fd0b67b 100644
--- a/.github/actions/spelling/expect.txt
+++ b/.github/actions/spelling/expect.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ adoc
 aeadd
 aed
 afa
-agpl
 AGPL
 AGPLv
 ajbcn