diff --git a/.vscode/cspell.dictionaries/workspace.wordlist.txt b/.vscode/cspell.dictionaries/workspace.wordlist.txt
index bee22c2d0..049025d43 100644
--- a/.vscode/cspell.dictionaries/workspace.wordlist.txt
+++ b/.vscode/cspell.dictionaries/workspace.wordlist.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ aho-corasick
 backtrace
 blake2b_simd
 bstr
+bytecount
 byteorder
 chacha
 chrono
diff --git a/src/uu/wc/src/count_fast.rs b/src/uu/wc/src/count_fast.rs
index deaa890fd..b4078d6be 100644
--- a/src/uu/wc/src/count_fast.rs
+++ b/src/uu/wc/src/count_fast.rs
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ use nix::fcntl::{splice, SpliceFFlags};
 use nix::unistd::pipe;
 
 const BUF_SIZE: usize = 16 * 1024;
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android"))]
 const SPLICE_SIZE: usize = 128 * 1024;
 
 /// Splice wrapper which handles short writes
diff --git a/tests/by-util/test_wc.rs b/tests/by-util/test_wc.rs
index 7274c5888..c567c0dd5 100644
--- a/tests/by-util/test_wc.rs
+++ b/tests/by-util/test_wc.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 use crate::common::util::*;
 
-// spell-checker:ignore (flags) lwmcL clmwL ; (path) bogusfile emptyfile manyemptylines moby notrailingnewline onelongemptyline onelongword
+// spell-checker:ignore (flags) lwmcL clmwL ; (path) bogusfile emptyfile manyemptylines moby notrailingnewline onelongemptyline onelongword weirdchars
 
 #[test]
 fn test_count_bytes_large_stdin() {