diff --git a/builtin-apply.c b/builtin-apply.c
index 2a1004d025..3af4ae0c26 100644
--- a/builtin-apply.c
+++ b/builtin-apply.c
@@ -2006,7 +2006,7 @@ static int find_pos(struct image *img,
 		return -1;
 
 	/*
-	 * If match_begining or match_end is specified, there is no
+	 * If match_beginning or match_end is specified, there is no
 	 * point starting from a wrong line that will never match and
 	 * wander around and wait for a match at the specified end.
 	 */
diff --git a/builtin-cat-file.c b/builtin-cat-file.c
index 5906842008..a933eaa043 100644
--- a/builtin-cat-file.c
+++ b/builtin-cat-file.c
@@ -219,9 +219,10 @@ int cmd_cat_file(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			    "exit with zero when there's no error", 'e'),
 		OPT_SET_INT('p', NULL, &opt, "pretty-print object's content", 'p'),
 		OPT_SET_INT(0, "batch", &batch,
-			    "show info and content of objects feeded on stdin", BATCH),
+			    "show info and content of objects fed from the standard input",
+			    BATCH),
 		OPT_SET_INT(0, "batch-check", &batch,
-			    "show info about objects feeded on stdin",
+			    "show info about objects fed from the standard input",
 			    BATCH_CHECK),
 		OPT_END()
 	};
diff --git a/builtin-log.c b/builtin-log.c
index 8d16832f7e..e0d5caa61b 100644
--- a/builtin-log.c
+++ b/builtin-log.c
@@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	/*
 	 * We cannot move this anywhere earlier because we do want to
-	 * know if --root was given explicitly from the comand line.
+	 * know if --root was given explicitly from the command line.
 	 */
 	rev.show_root_diff = 1;
 
diff --git a/builtin-prune.c b/builtin-prune.c
index 8459aec8e8..4675f6054f 100644
--- a/builtin-prune.c
+++ b/builtin-prune.c
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static void prune_object_dir(const char *path)
 /*
  * Write errors (particularly out of space) can result in
  * failed temporary packs (and more rarely indexes and other
- * files begining with "tmp_") accumulating in the object
+ * files beginning with "tmp_") accumulating in the object
  * and the pack directories.
  */
 static void remove_temporary_files(const char *path)
diff --git a/builtin-show-branch.c b/builtin-show-branch.c
index 9f13caa76d..35a709e630 100644
--- a/builtin-show-branch.c
+++ b/builtin-show-branch.c
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ static int git_show_branch_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 			return config_error_nonbool(var);
 		/*
 		 * default_arg is now passed to parse_options(), so we need to
-		 * mimick the real argv a bit better.
+		 * mimic the real argv a bit better.
 		 */
 		if (!default_num) {
 			default_alloc = 20;
diff --git a/compat/win32/pthread.c b/compat/win32/pthread.c
index 5fc1670bee..0f949fc425 100644
--- a/compat/win32/pthread.c
+++ b/compat/win32/pthread.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * Copyright (C) 2009 Andrzej K. Haczewski <ahaczewski@gmail.com>
  *
- * DISCLAMER: The implementation is Git-specific, it is subset of original
+ * DISCLAIMER: The implementation is Git-specific, it is subset of original
  * Pthreads API, without lots of other features that Git doesn't use.
  * Git also makes sure that the passed arguments are valid, so there's
  * no need for double-checking.
diff --git a/connect.c b/connect.c
index 20054e4d0f..a37cf6af04 100644
--- a/connect.c
+++ b/connect.c
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ struct child_process *git_connect(int fd[2], const char *url_orig,
 
 	/*
 	 * Don't do destructive transforms with git:// as that
-	 * protocol code does '[]' dewrapping of its own.
+	 * protocol code does '[]' unwrapping of its own.
 	 */
 	if (host[0] == '[') {
 		end = strchr(host + 1, ']');
diff --git a/contrib/fast-import/import-directories.perl b/contrib/fast-import/import-directories.perl
index 5782d80e26..3a5da4ab00 100755
--- a/contrib/fast-import/import-directories.perl
+++ b/contrib/fast-import/import-directories.perl
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ sub parsekeyvaluepair
 
 Key and value strings may be enclosed in quotes, in which case
 whitespace inside the quotes is preserved. Additionally, an equal
-sign may be included in the key by preceeding it with a backslash.
+sign may be included in the key by preceding it with a backslash.
 For example:
 
  "key1 "=value1
diff --git a/daemon.c b/daemon.c
index 6c2bd97713..3769b6f570 100644
--- a/daemon.c
+++ b/daemon.c
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ static void parse_host_and_port(char *hostport, char **host,
 
 		end = strchr(hostport, ']');
 		if (!end)
-			die("Invalid reqeuest ('[' without ']')");
+			die("Invalid request ('[' without ']')");
 		*end = '\0';
 		*host = hostport + 1;
 		if (!end[1])
diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 68def6caed..989dbc54cb 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -3644,7 +3644,7 @@ static void diffcore_skip_stat_unmatch(struct diff_options *diffopt)
 		struct diff_filepair *p = q->queue[i];
 
 		/*
-		 * 1. Entries that come from stat info dirtyness
+		 * 1. Entries that come from stat info dirtiness
 		 *    always have both sides (iow, not create/delete),
 		 *    one side of the object name is unknown, with
 		 *    the same mode and size.  Keep the ones that
diff --git a/levenshtein.h b/levenshtein.h
index 0173abeef5..4105bf3549 100644
--- a/levenshtein.h
+++ b/levenshtein.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #define LEVENSHTEIN_H
 
 int levenshtein(const char *string1, const char *string2,
-	int swap_penalty, int substition_penalty,
+	int swap_penalty, int substitution_penalty,
 	int insertion_penalty, int deletion_penalty);
 
 #endif
diff --git a/path.c b/path.c
index 0005df3a5f..d1fccbde7f 100644
--- a/path.c
+++ b/path.c
@@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ int daemon_avoid_alias(const char *p)
 	/*
 	 * This resurrects the belts and suspenders paranoia check by HPA
 	 * done in <435560F7.4080006@zytor.com> thread, now enter_repo()
-	 * does not do getcwd() based path canonicalizations.
+	 * does not do getcwd() based path canonicalization.
 	 *
 	 * sl becomes true immediately after seeing '/' and continues to
 	 * be true as long as dots continue after that without intervening
diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm
index e8df55d2f2..970fe434ed 100644
--- a/perl/Git.pm
+++ b/perl/Git.pm
@@ -204,14 +204,14 @@ sub repository {
 			$dir = $opts{Directory};
 
 			unless (-d "$dir/refs" and -d "$dir/objects" and -e "$dir/HEAD") {
-				# Mimick git-rev-parse --git-dir error message:
+				# Mimic git-rev-parse --git-dir error message:
 				throw Error::Simple("fatal: Not a git repository: $dir");
 			}
 			my $search = Git->repository(Repository => $dir);
 			try {
 				$search->command('symbolic-ref', 'HEAD');
 			} catch Git::Error::Command with {
-				# Mimick git-rev-parse --git-dir error message:
+				# Mimic git-rev-parse --git-dir error message:
 				throw Error::Simple("fatal: Not a git repository: $dir");
 			}
 
diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index 503a8c2bd0..f3fcbe023a 100644
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ int for_each_glob_ref_in(each_ref_fn fn, const char *pattern,
 
 	has_glob_specials = strpbrk(pattern, "?*[");
 	if (!has_glob_specials) {
-		/* Append impiled '/' '*' if not present. */
+		/* Append implied '/' '*' if not present. */
 		if (real_pattern.buf[real_pattern.len - 1] != '/')
 			strbuf_addch(&real_pattern, '/');
 		/* No need to check for '*', there is none. */
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index b38cbee145..0717a98d16 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ int is_inside_work_tree(void)
 }
 
 /*
- * set_work_tree() is only ever called if you set GIT_DIR explicitely.
+ * set_work_tree() is only ever called if you set GIT_DIR explicitly.
  * The old behaviour (which we retain here) is to set the work tree root
  * to the cwd, unless overridden by the config, the command line, or
  * GIT_WORK_TREE.
diff --git a/test-chmtime.c b/test-chmtime.c
index fe476cb618..92713d16da 100644
--- a/test-chmtime.c
+++ b/test-chmtime.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * This program can either change modification time of the given
  * file(s) or just print it. The program does not change atime nor
- * ctime (their values are explicitely preserved).
+ * ctime (their values are explicitly preserved).
  *
  * The mtime can be changed to an absolute value:
  *
diff --git a/transport-helper.c b/transport-helper.c
index 107742891f..f822972020 100644
--- a/transport-helper.c
+++ b/transport-helper.c
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ static struct child_process *get_helper(struct transport *transport)
 		} else if (!strcmp(capname, "connect")) {
 			data->connect = 1;
 		} else if (mandatory) {
-			die("Unknown madatory capability %s. This remote "
+			die("Unknown mandatory capability %s. This remote "
 			    "helper probably needs newer version of Git.\n",
 			    capname);
 		}