diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 2767bec70..b57e15458 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ jobs:
       - checkout
       - run:
           name: Check codespell
-          command: pip install codespell --user &&  make codespell
+          command: pip install 'codespell<3.0.0,>=2.0.0' --user &&  make codespell
   lint:
     docker:
       - image: circleci/python:3.8
diff --git a/.codespell-whitelist b/.codespell-whitelist
index ff694e380..6b8bab36f 100644
--- a/.codespell-whitelist
+++ b/.codespell-whitelist
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 uint
-byteorder
\ No newline at end of file
+byteorder
+ether