diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/fsxattr.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/fsxattr.rs
index 36ec0ba8e..3cb00edc0 100644
--- a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/fsxattr.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/fsxattr.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
+// spell-checker:ignore getxattr
+
 //! Set of functions to manage xattr on files and dirs
 use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::ffi::OsString;