diff --git a/.github/workflows/docs-validation.yml b/.github/workflows/docs-validation.yml
index ef4a3d96..462bc9c6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docs-validation.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docs-validation.yml
@@ -24,4 +24,5 @@ jobs:
       enable-spell-check: true
       enable-markdown-lint: true
       enable-link-check: true
+      cspell-config: 'docs/cspell.json'
       tools-ref: '5.x'
diff --git a/docs/cspell.json b/docs/cspell.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..54bd0178
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/cspell.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+  "version": "0.2",
+  "import": ["../.docs-tools/docs-validation/cspell.json"],
+  "words": ["hmac"]
+}