diff --git a/doc/source/changelog/1294.maintenance.md b/doc/source/changelog/1294.maintenance.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f8416e64b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/source/changelog/1294.maintenance.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Ignoring cookiecutter from vale
diff --git a/doc/styles/config/vocabularies/ANSYS/accept.txt b/doc/styles/config/vocabularies/ANSYS/accept.txt
index 93631a1f1..dc7c57d11 100644
--- a/doc/styles/config/vocabularies/ANSYS/accept.txt
+++ b/doc/styles/config/vocabularies/ANSYS/accept.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ ansys
 automerge
 Chocolatey
 CI
+[Cc]ookiecutter
 cooldown
 dependabot
 dev