diff --git a/cmake/extensions.cmake b/cmake/extensions.cmake
index acef35c7d36..09b3cbb901c 100644
--- a/cmake/extensions.cmake
+++ b/cmake/extensions.cmake
@@ -861,7 +861,7 @@ function(zephyr_check_compiler_flag lang option check)
     # This is racy. As often with race conditions, this one can easily be
     # made worse and demonstrated with a simple delay:
     #    execute_process(COMMAND "sleep" "5")
-    # Delete the cache, add the sleep above and run sanitycheck with a
+    # Delete the cache, add the sleep above and run twister with a
     # large number of JOBS. Once it's done look at the log.txt file
     # below and you will see that concurrent cmake processes created the
     # same files multiple times.
diff --git a/cmake/kconfig.cmake b/cmake/kconfig.cmake
index a5494762a6c..03aab1a157b 100644
--- a/cmake/kconfig.cmake
+++ b/cmake/kconfig.cmake
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ foreach(kconfig_input
   set_property(DIRECTORY APPEND PROPERTY CMAKE_CONFIGURE_DEPENDS ${kconfig_input})
 endforeach()
 
-add_custom_target(config-sanitycheck DEPENDS ${DOTCONFIG})
+add_custom_target(config-twister DEPENDS ${DOTCONFIG})
 
 # Remove the CLI Kconfig symbols from the namespace and
 # CMakeCache.txt. If the symbols end up in DOTCONFIG they will be