diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/format/spec.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/format/spec.rs
index 57ed5ad45..af8a912d2 100644
--- a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/format/spec.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/format/spec.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
-// spell-checker:ignore (vars) intmax ptrdiff
+// spell-checker:ignore (vars) intmax ptrdiff padlen
 
 use crate::quoting_style::{escape_name, QuotingStyle};