diff --git a/.github/workflows/codespell.yml b/.github/workflows/codespell.yml
index 5768d7c63672e68e60791ca6828d50d76be35e61..2abb1a141ecb6b6cbc4b385d8d433517efd07f45 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codespell.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codespell.yml
@@ -17,3 +17,6 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - name: Codespell
         uses: codespell-project/actions-codespell@v1
+        with:
+          # github import test: the repo to be imported has that typo,   and it's not easy to change
+          ignore_words_list: transfered
diff --git a/bridge/github/import_test.go b/bridge/github/import_test.go
index 52a3f8523f71c7ddd09ca09b27387f6846e59cd9..b0ff2f99c647208d3982cc774a20d31bedc03f50 100644
--- a/bridge/github/import_test.go
+++ b/bridge/github/import_test.go
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ func TestGithubImporter(t *testing.T) {
 			url:  "https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug-test-github-bridge/issues/8",
 			bug: &bug.Snapshot{
 				Operations: []dag.Operation{
-					bug.NewCreateOp(author, 0, "transferred issue", "", nil),
+					bug.NewCreateOp(author, 0, "transfered issue", "", nil),
 				},
 			},
 		},