diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 22b51afdc57a..f07477db2cdc 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ repos:
   rev: v2.4.0
   hooks:
   - id: codespell
-    exclude: 'benchmarks/sonnet.txt|(build|tests/(lora/data|models/fixtures|prompts))/.*|vllm/third_party/.*'
+    additional_dependencies: ['tomli']
+    args: ['--toml', 'pyproject.toml']
 - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/isort
   rev: 5.13.2
   hooks:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9892967b82d7..fd705e7e828e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ exclude = [
 
 [tool.codespell]
 ignore-words-list = "dout, te, indicies, subtile, ElementE"
-skip = "./tests/models/fixtures,./tests/prompts,./benchmarks/sonnet.txt,./tests/lora/data,./build"
+skip = "tests/models/fixtures/*,tests/prompts/*,benchmarks/sonnet.txt,tests/lora/data/*,build/*,vllm/third_party/*"
 
 [tool.isort]
 use_parentheses = true