diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d05a64083..327199d1a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -170,12 +170,15 @@ extend-allowed-calls = ["datafusion.lit", "lit"]
 "docs/*" = ["D"]
 "docs/source/conf.py" = ["ANN001", "ERA001", "INP001"]
 
+# CI and pre-commit invoke codespell with different paths, so we have a little
+# redundancy here, and we intentionally drop python in the path.
 [tool.codespell]
 skip = [
-  "./python/tests/test_functions.py",
-  "./target",
+  "*/tests/test_functions.py",
+  "*/target",
+  "./uv.lock",
   "uv.lock",
-  "./examples/tpch/answers_sf1/*",
+  "*/tpch/answers_sf1/*",
 ]
 count = true
 ignore-words-list = ["IST", "ans"]