diff --git a/.github/workflows/spelling.yaml b/.github/workflows/spelling.yaml
index da45fe2ca..e56205b44 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/spelling.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/spelling.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3
     - name: Check Spelling
-      uses: crate-ci/typos@7ad296c72fa8265059cc03d1eda562fbdfcd6df2 # v1.9.0
+      uses: crate-ci/typos@548ac37a5de9ce84871bf4db3c9b8c462896d480 # v1.16.24
       with:
-        files: ./lib/ramble/ramble ./lib/ramble/docs ./examples ./share ./bin ./etc ./README.md
+        files: ./lib/ramble/ramble ./lib/ramble/docs ./examples ./share ./bin ./etc ./var ./README.md
         config: ./.typos.toml
diff --git a/.typos.toml b/.typos.toml
index a9098dd01..18ce75dc8 100644
--- a/.typos.toml
+++ b/.typos.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ extend-exclude = [
     "lib/ramble/external/",
     "lib/ramble/llnl/",
     "lib/ramble/spack/",
-    "var/",
 ]
 ignore-hidden = false
 
@@ -17,8 +16,10 @@ extend-ignore-re = [
 [default.extend-words]
 "fom" = "fom"
 "namd" = "namd"
+"reord" = "reord"
 
 [default.extend-identifiers]
 "ATPase" = "ATPase"
 "cachable" = "cachable"
 "clen" = "clen"
+"enable_deck_based_FOMs" = "enable_deck_based_FOMs"
diff --git a/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/hmmer/application.py b/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/hmmer/application.py
index 84b396b4c..373e98257 100644
--- a/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/hmmer/application.py
+++ b/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/hmmer/application.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ class Hmmer(SpackApplication):
 
     software_spec('hmmer', spack_spec='hmmer@3.3.2', compiler='gcc9')
 
-    # This would ideally not use the current_relase, as the package will need to be manually updated per release
+    # This would ideally not use the current_release, as the package will need to be manually updated per release
     # Here current_release == 'Pfam36.0'
     input_file('Pfam_A',
                url='http://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/Pfam/current_release/Pfam-A.hmm.gz',
diff --git a/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/hpl/application.py b/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/hpl/application.py
index 4298d6031..9ea07cc56 100644
--- a/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/hpl/application.py
+++ b/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/hpl/application.py
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ class Hpl(SpackApplication):
                       description='DEPTH for optimized calculator',
                       workloads=['calculator'])
 
-    # FoMs:
+    # FOMs:
     log_str = os.path.join(Expander.expansion_str('experiment_run_dir'),
                            Expander.expansion_str('experiment_name') + '.out')
 
diff --git a/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/intel-hpl/application.py b/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/intel-hpl/application.py
index 93dd93d9e..2be32a10b 100644
--- a/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/intel-hpl/application.py
+++ b/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/intel-hpl/application.py
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ class IntelHpl(SpackApplication):
                       description='DEPTH for optimized calculator',
                       workloads=['calculator'])
 
-    # FoMs:
+    # FOMs:
     log_str = os.path.join(Expander.expansion_str('experiment_run_dir'),
                            Expander.expansion_str('experiment_name') + '.out')
 
diff --git a/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/intel-mpi-benchmarks/application.py b/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/intel-mpi-benchmarks/application.py
index e82c2367c..cb394558d 100644
--- a/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/intel-mpi-benchmarks/application.py
+++ b/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/intel-mpi-benchmarks/application.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 from ramble.appkit import *
 from ramble.expander import Expander
 
-# Genral Guidance:
+# General Guidance:
 # - Use compact placement policy
 # - Check the compute nodes in a single rack using the network topology API
 
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ class IntelMpiBenchmarks(SpackApplication):
 
     # Multiple spack packages (specifically intel-oneapi-mpi) provide the
     # binary we need. It's fairly common to want to decouple the version of MPI
-    # from the version of the benchmark, so this varialbe gives a user an
+    # from the version of the benchmark, so this variable gives a user an
     # explicit way to control that, as well as more strongly implies the binary
     # from intel-mpi-benchmarks by default
     workload_variable('install_path',
diff --git a/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/md-test/application.py b/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/md-test/application.py
index cac3e2a2c..08eb1e936 100644
--- a/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/md-test/application.py
+++ b/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/md-test/application.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ class MdTest(SpackApplication):
     software_spec('openmpi', spack_spec='openmpi')
 
     # The IOR spack package also includes MDTest, but we implement it as a
-    # seperate application in ramble
+    # separate application in ramble
     software_spec('ior', spack_spec='ior', compiler='gcc')
 
     required_package('ior')
diff --git a/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/namd/application.py b/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/namd/application.py
index 7847cf5a2..9d691fc01 100644
--- a/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/namd/application.py
+++ b/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/namd/application.py
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ class Namd(SpackApplication):
     figure_of_merit_context(
         'Energy iteration',
         regex=energy_regex,
-        output_format='Enery Iteration: {itr}'
+        output_format='Energy Iteration: {itr}'
     )
 
     figure_of_merit(
diff --git a/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/osu-micro-benchmarks/application.py b/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/osu-micro-benchmarks/application.py
index 7b29be031..1c92ffc49 100644
--- a/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/osu-micro-benchmarks/application.py
+++ b/var/ramble/repos/builtin/applications/osu-micro-benchmarks/application.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ class OsuMicroBenchmarks(SpackApplication):
     size_time_regex = r'(?P<msg_size>[0-9.]+)+\s+(?P<fom>[0-9.]+)'
     figure_of_merit_context('msg_size',
                             regex=size_time_regex,
-                            output_format='Messae Size: {msg_size}')
+                            output_format='Message Size: {msg_size}')
 
     log_str = Expander.expansion_str('log_file')
     for benchmark, unit in pt2pt:
diff --git a/var/ramble/repos/builtin/modifiers/gcp-metadata/modifier.py b/var/ramble/repos/builtin/modifiers/gcp-metadata/modifier.py
index 2cba7249a..a1007f0c4 100644
--- a/var/ramble/repos/builtin/modifiers/gcp-metadata/modifier.py
+++ b/var/ramble/repos/builtin/modifiers/gcp-metadata/modifier.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 class GcpMetadata(BasicModifier):
     """Define a modifier to grab GCP VM metadata
 
-    This mod can capture usefull metadata (such as node type and VM image) for
+    This mod can capture useful metadata (such as node type and VM image) for
     GCP VMs
     """