diff --git a/.codespellrc b/.codespellrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..82766e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.codespellrc
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[codespell]
+skip = .git,*.pdf,*.svg
+ignore-words-list = falsy
diff --git a/.github/workflows/codespell.yml b/.github/workflows/codespell.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..243ba8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/codespell.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+---
+name: Codespell
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+
+jobs:
+  codespell:
+    name: Check for spelling errors
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Codespell
+        uses: codespell-project/actions-codespell@v1
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8c9de75..d63492d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ chevron supports lambdas
 import chevron
 
 def first(text, render):
-    # return only first occurance of items
+    # return only first occurrence of items
     result = render(text)
     return [ x.strip() for x in result.split(" || ") if x.strip() ][0]
 
diff --git a/chevron/renderer.py b/chevron/renderer.py
index 65a00f6..7c8db35 100644
--- a/chevron/renderer.py
+++ b/chevron/renderer.py
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ def _get_key(key, scopes, warn, keep, def_ldel, def_rdel):
     # Loop through the scopes
     for scope in scopes:
         try:
-            # For every dot seperated key
+            # For every dot separated key
             for child in key.split('.'):
                 # Move into the scope
                 try:
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ def render(template='', data={}, partials_path='.', partials_ext='mustache',
     A string containing the rendered template.
     """
 
-    # If the template is a seqeuence but not derived from a string
+    # If the template is a sequence but not derived from a string
     if isinstance(template, Sequence) and \
             not isinstance(template, string_type):
         # Then we don't need to tokenize it
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ def render(template='', data={}, partials_path='.', partials_ext='mustache',
                 # then remove the spaces from the end
                 part_out = part_out.rstrip(' \t')
 
-            # Add the partials output to the ouput
+            # Add the partials output to the output
             if python3:
                 output += part_out
             else:  # python 2