diff --git a/.github/workflows/remove-unused-assets.yml b/.github/workflows/remove-unused-assets.yml
index 7fba3f2db7..c23db2adfc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/remove-unused-assets.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/remove-unused-assets.yml
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: Run scripts
         run: |
           script/remove-unused-assets.js > results.md
-          script/remove-extraneous-translation-files.js
       - name: Get script results to use in PR body
         id: results
         uses: juliangruber/read-file-action@e0a316da496006ffd19142f0fd594a1783f3b512
diff --git a/script/README.md b/script/README.md
index 8c77a127b6..936650f12e 100644
--- a/script/README.md
+++ b/script/README.md
@@ -367,13 +367,6 @@ An automated test checks for discrepancies between filenames and [autogenerated
 ---
 
 
-### [`remove-extraneous-translation-files.js`](remove-extraneous-translation-files.js)
-
-An [automated test](/tests/extraneous-translation-files.js) checks for files in the `translations/` directory that do not have an equivalent English file in the `content/` directory, and fails if it finds extraneous files. When the test fails, a human needs to run this script to remove the files.
-
----
-
-
 ### [`remove-stale-staging-apps.js`](remove-stale-staging-apps.js)
 
 This script removes all stale Heroku staging apps that outlasted the closure of their corresponding pull requests, or correspond to spammy pull requests.
diff --git a/script/helpers/find-extraneous-translation-files.js b/script/helpers/find-extraneous-translation-files.js
deleted file mode 100644
index ae79102aa6..0000000000
--- a/script/helpers/find-extraneous-translation-files.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env node
-import { fileURLToPath } from 'url'
-import path from 'path'
-import { difference } from 'lodash-es'
-import walkSync from 'walk-sync'
-import languages from '../../lib/languages.js'
-
-const __dirname = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url))
-const walk = walkSync.entries
-
-export default function findExtraneousTranslatedFiles() {
-  const files = []
-  const relativePaths = {}
-
-  // group page.relativePath lists by language
-  for (const languageCode in languages) {
-    const language = languages[languageCode]
-    const languageDir = path.join(__dirname, '..', language.dir)
-    relativePaths[languageCode] = walk(languageDir, { directories: false }).map(
-      (file) => file.relativePath
-    )
-  }
-
-  for (const languageCode in languages) {
-    if (languageCode === 'en') continue
-    const language = languages[languageCode]
-    /* istanbul ignore next */
-    difference(relativePaths[languageCode], relativePaths.en).forEach((file) => {
-      files.push(path.join(__dirname, '..', language.dir, file))
-    })
-  }
-
-  return files
-}
diff --git a/script/remove-extraneous-translation-files.js b/script/remove-extraneous-translation-files.js
deleted file mode 100755
index 1728d98d36..0000000000
--- a/script/remove-extraneous-translation-files.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env node
-
-// [start-readme]
-//
-// An [automated test](/tests/extraneous-translation-files.js) checks for files in the `translations/` directory
-// that do not have an equivalent English file in the `content/` directory, and fails if it finds extraneous files.
-// When the test fails, a human needs to run this script to remove the files.
-//
-// [end-readme]
-
-import fs from 'fs'
-import findExtraneousFiles from './helpers/find-extraneous-translation-files.js'
-
-main()
-
-async function main() {
-  const files = findExtraneousFiles()
-  console.log(
-    `Found ${files.length} extraneous translation ${files.length === 1 ? 'file' : 'files'}\n\n`
-  )
-  files.forEach((file) => {
-    console.log(file)
-    fs.unlinkSync(file)
-  })
-}