diff --git a/.github/vale/config/vocabularies/Backstage/accept.txt b/.github/vale/config/vocabularies/Backstage/accept.txt
index c2b7d8c2ad..fa1b10add8 100644
--- a/.github/vale/config/vocabularies/Backstage/accept.txt
+++ b/.github/vale/config/vocabularies/Backstage/accept.txt
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ dependabot
 deps
 dequeue
 dequeueing
+dereferencing
 deserialization
 destructured
 destructuring