diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/codespell/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/codespell/default.nix
similarity index 82%
rename from pkgs/development/python-modules/codespell/default.nix
rename to pkgs/development/tools/codespell/default.nix
index e8be4644910c..07b1b4c96c3e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/codespell/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/codespell/default.nix
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
-{ lib, buildPythonApplication, fetchFromGitHub, pytestCheckHook, pytest-dependency, aspell-python, aspellDicts, chardet }:
+{ lib
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, aspellDicts
+, python3
+}:
 
-buildPythonApplication rec {
+python3.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
   pname = "codespell";
   version = "2.2.1";
+  format = "setuptools";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "codespell-project";
@@ -17,7 +22,12 @@ buildPythonApplication rec {
       --replace "--cov-report=" ""
   '';
 
-  checkInputs = [ aspell-python chardet pytestCheckHook pytest-dependency ];
+  checkInputs = with python3.pkgs; [
+    aspell-python
+    chardet
+    pytestCheckHook
+    pytest-dependency
+  ];
 
   preCheck = ''
     export ASPELL_CONF="dict-dir ${aspellDicts.en}/lib/aspell"
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index dae5c6e379d7..0bee0afb909e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2406,7 +2406,7 @@ with pkgs;
 
   cod = callPackage ../tools/misc/cod { };
 
-  codespell = with python3Packages; toPythonApplication codespell;
+  codespell = callPackage ../development/tools/codespell { };
 
   coolreader = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/misc/coolreader {};
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index a9ea2323a67e..79231ed51b07 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   bt_proximity = throw "'bt_proximity' has been renamed to/replaced by 'bt-proximity'"; # Converted to throw 2022-09-24
   carrot = throw "carrot has been removed, as its development was discontinued in 2012"; # added 2022-01-18
   class-registry = phx-class-registry; # added 2021-10-05
+  codespell = throw "codespell has been promoted to a top-level attribute"; # Added 2022-10-02
   ConfigArgParse = throw "'ConfigArgParse' has been renamed to/replaced by 'configargparse'"; # Converted to throw 2022-09-24
   cozy = throw "cozy was removed because it was not actually https://pypi.org/project/Cozy/."; # added 2022-01-14
   cryptography_vectors = "cryptography_vectors is no longer exposed in python*Packages because it is used for testing cryptography only."; # Added 2022-03-23
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 8cb9d6c3f57a..5abf2acf8cf4 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -1962,8 +1962,6 @@ in {
 
   codepy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/codepy { };
 
-  codespell = callPackage ../development/python-modules/codespell { };
-
   cogapp = callPackage ../development/python-modules/cogapp { };
 
   coinmetrics-api-client = callPackage ../development/python-modules/coinmetrics-api-client { };