diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c461c6d7f..e59ced055 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@
 
 ### Tutorial enhancements:
 - Added new tutorial for intracellular electrophysiology to describe the use of the new metadata tables
-  and declared the previous tutoral using ``SweepTable`` as deprecated.  @oruebel (#1349)
+  and declared the previous tutorial using ``SweepTable`` as deprecated.  @oruebel (#1349)
 - Added new tutorial for querying intracellular electrophysiology metadata
   (``docs/gallery/domain/plot_icephys_pandas.py``). @oruebel (#1349, #1383)
 - Added thumbnails for tutorials to improve presentation of online docs.  @oruebel (#1349)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 92e921999..77d33e352 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ exclude = [
 
 [tool.codespell]
 skip = "htmlcov,.git,.mypy_cache,.pytest_cache,.coverage,*.pdf,*.svg,venvs,.tox,nwb-schema,./docs/_build/*,*.ipynb"
-ignore-words-list = "optin,potatos"
+ignore-words-list = "optin,potatos,assertin"
 
 [tool.coverage.run]
 branch = true