diff --git a/.github/mergify.yml b/.github/mergify.yml
index 057c323..b50cdc9 100644
--- a/.github/mergify.yml
+++ b/.github/mergify.yml
@@ -73,20 +73,6 @@ pull_request_rules:
         - -files=.markdownlint-cli2.yaml
         - -files=.github/workflows/docs.yml
 
-    - or:
-      - and:
-        - check-success=spellcheck
-        - or:
-          - files~=\.md$
-          - files=tox.ini
-          - files~=^\.spellcheck[^/]+$
-          - files=.github/workflows/spellcheck.yml
-      - and:
-        - -files~=\.md$
-        - -files=tox.ini
-        - -files~=^\.spellcheck[^/]+$
-        - -files=.github/workflows/spellcheck.yml
-
   actions:
     merge:
       method: merge
@@ -101,7 +87,6 @@ pull_request_rules:
       - files=scripts/ruff.sh
       - files=.pre-commit-config.yaml
       - files=.pylintrc
-      - files~=^\.spellcheck[^/]+$
       - files=tox.ini
       - files=.markdownlint-cli2.yaml
   actions:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/spellcheck.yml b/.github/workflows/spellcheck.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 681d58c..0000000
--- a/.github/workflows/spellcheck.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-name: Spellcheck
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - "main"
-    paths:
-      - '**.md'
-      - '.github/workflows/spellcheck.yml' # This workflow
-  pull_request:
-    branches:
-      - "main"
-    paths:
-      - '**.md'
-      - '.github/workflows/spellcheck.yml' # This workflow
-
-env:
-  LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8
-
-defaults:
-  run:
-    shell: bash
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  spellcheck:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: "Harden Runner"
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@0634a2670c59f64b4a01f0f96f84700a4088b9f0 # v2.12.0
-        with:
-         egress-policy: audit # TODO: change to 'egress-policy: block' after couple of runs
-
-      - name: "Checkout"
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-
-      - name: Spellcheck
-        uses: rojopolis/spellcheck-github-actions@584b2ae95998967a53af7fbfb7f5b15352c38748 # v0.49.0
diff --git a/.spellcheck-en-custom.txt b/.spellcheck-en-custom.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 3251d44..0000000
--- a/.spellcheck-en-custom.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-
-# make spellcheck-sort
-# Please keep this file sorted:
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-Backport
-backported
-benchmarking
-codebase
-cli
-dev
-dr
-eval
-gpt
-hoc
-http
-instructlab
-jsonl
-justfile
-MMLU
-openai
-pre
-SDG
-Tatsu
-tl
-TODO
-tox
-venv
-vllm
-barebones
-LM
diff --git a/.spellcheck.yml b/.spellcheck.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 36dc7e4..0000000
--- a/.spellcheck.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-matrix:
-- name: markdown
-  aspell:
-    lang: en
-    d: en_US
-    camel-case: true
-    mode: markdown
-  sources:
-  - "**/*.md|!.tox/**|!venv/**"
-  dictionary:
-    wordlists:
-    - .spellcheck-en-custom.txt
-  pipeline:
-  - pyspelling.filters.context:
-      context_visible_first: true
-      escapes: '\\[\\`~]'
-      delimiters:
-      # Ignore multiline content between fences (fences can have 3 or more back ticks)
-      # ```language
-      # content
-      # ```
-      - open: '(?s)^(?P<open> *`{3,}).*?$'
-        close: '^(?P=open)$'
-      # Ignore text between inline back ticks
-      - open: '(?P<open>`+)'
-        close: '(?P=open)'
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6155b53..26892eb 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -43,14 +43,6 @@ md-lint: ## Lint markdown files
 	$(ECHO_PREFIX) printf "  %-12s ./...\n" "[MD LINT]"
 	$(CMD_PREFIX) podman run --rm -v $(CURDIR):/workdir --security-opt label=disable docker.io/davidanson/markdownlint-cli2:latest > /dev/null
 
-.PHONY: spellcheck
-spellcheck: ## Spellcheck markdown files
-	tox p -e spellcheck
-
-.PHONY: spellcheck-sort
-spellcheck-sort: .spellcheck-en-custom.txt ## Sort spellcheck directory
-	sort -d -f -o $< $<
-
 .PHONY: verify
 verify: check-tox ## Run linting, typing, and formatting checks via tox
 	tox p -e fastlint,mypy,ruff
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index e1acce2..1ec6b68 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ pytest-html
 
 ruff
 isort
-pyspelling
 
 mypy>=1.10.0
 types-tqdm
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index a50c2ad..6513073 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 [tox]
 # py3-unit runs unit tests with 'python3'
 # py311-unit runs the same tests with 'python3.11'
-envlist = ruff, lint, mypy, spellcheck, py3-{unit, functional}
+envlist = ruff, lint, mypy, py3-{unit, functional}
 minversion = 4.4
 
 [testenv]
@@ -71,17 +71,6 @@ commands =
     ./scripts/ruff.sh {posargs:fix}
 allowlist_externals = ./scripts/ruff.sh
 
-[testenv:spellcheck]
-description = spell check (needs 'aspell' command)
-skip_install = true
-skipsdist = true
-deps =
-    pyspelling
-commands =
-    sh -c 'command -v aspell || (echo "aspell is not installed. Please install it." && exit 1)'
-    {envpython} -m pyspelling --config {toxinidir}/.spellcheck.yml --spellchecker aspell
-allowlist_externals = sh
-
 [testenv:mypy]
 description = Python type checking with mypy
 deps =