diff --git a/docs/3rd-party-py3k-compat-code/jinja2_compat.py b/docs/3rd-party-py3k-compat-code/jinja2_compat.py
index 1326cbc6..0456faae 100644
--- a/docs/3rd-party-py3k-compat-code/jinja2_compat.py
+++ b/docs/3rd-party-py3k-compat-code/jinja2_compat.py
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ def encode_filename(filename):
 
 def with_metaclass(meta, *bases):
     # This requires a bit of explanation: the basic idea is to make a
-    # dummy metaclass for one level of class instanciation that replaces
+    # dummy metaclass for one level of class instantiation that replaces
     # itself with the actual metaclass.  Because of internal type checks
     # we also need to make sure that we downgrade the custom metaclass
     # for one level to something closer to type (that's why __call__ and
diff --git a/docs/notebooks/object special methods (next, bool, ...).ipynb b/docs/notebooks/object special methods (next, bool, ...).ipynb
index 5729ddc5..7da31856 100644
--- a/docs/notebooks/object special methods (next, bool, ...).ipynb	
+++ b/docs/notebooks/object special methods (next, bool, ...).ipynb	
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
      "collapsed": false,
      "input": [
       "# Py3-style iterators written as new-style classes (subclasses of\n",
-      "# future.builtins.object) are backward compatibile with Py2:\n",
+      "# future.builtins.object) are backward compatible with Py2:\n",
       "class Upper(object):\n",
       "    def __init__(self, iterable):\n",
       "        self._iter = iter(iterable)\n",
diff --git a/docs/standard_library_imports.rst b/docs/standard_library_imports.rst
index 60442541..c09e9e30 100644
--- a/docs/standard_library_imports.rst
+++ b/docs/standard_library_imports.rst
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ As of version 0.14, the ``future`` package comes with top-level packages for
 Python 2.x that provide access to the reorganized standard library modules
 under their Python 3.x names.
 
-Direct imports are the preferred mechanism for accesing the renamed standard
+Direct imports are the preferred mechanism for accessing the renamed standard
 library modules in Python 2/3 compatible code. For example, the following clean
 Python 3 code runs unchanged on Python 2 after installing ``future``::
 
diff --git a/docs/whatsnew.rst b/docs/whatsnew.rst
index 9018fdfe..a2b0fa55 100644
--- a/docs/whatsnew.rst
+++ b/docs/whatsnew.rst
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ This is a major bug-fix and feature release, including:
 - Fix an issue with copyreg import under Py3 that results in unexposed stdlib functionality
 - Export and document types in future.utils
 - Update behavior of newstr.__eq__() to match str.__eq__() as per reference docs
-- Fix raising and the raising fixer to handle cases where the syntax is ambigious
+- Fix raising and the raising fixer to handle cases where the syntax is ambiguous
 - Allow "default" parameter in min() and max() (Issue #334)
 - Implement __hash__() in newstr (Issue #454)
 - Future proof some version checks to handle the fact that Py4 won't be a major breaking release
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ This is a major bug-fix release, including:
 - Fix ``past.translation`` on read-only file systems
 - Fix Tkinter import bug introduced in Python 2.7.4 (issue #262)
 - Correct TypeError to ValueError in a specific edge case for newrange
-- Support inequality tests betwen newstrs and newbytes
+- Support inequality tests between newstrs and newbytes
 - Add type check to __get__ in newsuper
 - Fix fix_divsion_safe to support better conversion of complex expressions, and
   skip obvious float division.
diff --git a/src/future/backports/datetime.py b/src/future/backports/datetime.py
index 3261014e..8cd62ddf 100644
--- a/src/future/backports/datetime.py
+++ b/src/future/backports/datetime.py
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ def today(cls):
 
     @classmethod
     def fromordinal(cls, n):
-        """Contruct a date from a proleptic Gregorian ordinal.
+        """Construct a date from a proleptic Gregorian ordinal.
 
         January 1 of year 1 is day 1.  Only the year, month and day are
         non-zero in the result.
diff --git a/src/future/backports/email/_header_value_parser.py b/src/future/backports/email/_header_value_parser.py
index 43957edc..59b1b318 100644
--- a/src/future/backports/email/_header_value_parser.py
+++ b/src/future/backports/email/_header_value_parser.py
@@ -2867,7 +2867,7 @@ def parse_content_type_header(value):
         _find_mime_parameters(ctype, value)
         return ctype
     ctype.append(token)
-    # XXX: If we really want to follow the formal grammer we should make
+    # XXX: If we really want to follow the formal grammar we should make
     # mantype and subtype specialized TokenLists here.  Probably not worth it.
     if not value or value[0] != '/':
         ctype.defects.append(errors.InvalidHeaderDefect(
diff --git a/src/future/backports/email/parser.py b/src/future/backports/email/parser.py
index df1c6e28..79f0e5a3 100644
--- a/src/future/backports/email/parser.py
+++ b/src/future/backports/email/parser.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ def __init__(self, _class=Message, **_3to2kwargs):
         textual representation of the message.
 
         The string must be formatted as a block of RFC 2822 headers and header
-        continuation lines, optionally preceeded by a `Unix-from' header.  The
+        continuation lines, optionally preceded by a `Unix-from' header.  The
         header block is terminated either by the end of the string or by a
         blank line.
 
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kw):
         textual representation of the message.
 
         The input must be formatted as a block of RFC 2822 headers and header
-        continuation lines, optionally preceeded by a `Unix-from' header.  The
+        continuation lines, optionally preceded by a `Unix-from' header.  The
         header block is terminated either by the end of the input or by a
         blank line.
 
diff --git a/src/future/backports/xmlrpc/client.py b/src/future/backports/xmlrpc/client.py
index b78e5bad..cab75390 100644
--- a/src/future/backports/xmlrpc/client.py
+++ b/src/future/backports/xmlrpc/client.py
@@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@ def close(self):
     # Send HTTP request.
     #
     # @param host Host descriptor (URL or (URL, x509 info) tuple).
-    # @param handler Targer RPC handler (a path relative to host)
+    # @param handler Target RPC handler (a path relative to host)
     # @param request_body The XML-RPC request body
     # @param debug Enable debugging if debug is true.
     # @return An HTTPConnection.
diff --git a/src/future/standard_library/__init__.py b/src/future/standard_library/__init__.py
index 2cee75db..08a2828a 100644
--- a/src/future/standard_library/__init__.py
+++ b/src/future/standard_library/__init__.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     import socketserver
     import winreg    # on Windows only
     import test.support
-    import html, html.parser, html.entites
+    import html, html.parser, html.entities
     import http, http.client, http.server
     import http.cookies, http.cookiejar
     import urllib.parse, urllib.request, urllib.response, urllib.error, urllib.robotparser
diff --git a/src/future/types/newint.py b/src/future/types/newint.py
index 04a411e9..2c86ce18 100644
--- a/src/future/types/newint.py
+++ b/src/future/types/newint.py
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ def to_bytes(self, length, byteorder='big', signed=False):
             bits = length * 8
             num = (2**bits) + self
             if num <= 0:
-                raise OverflowError("int too smal to convert")
+                raise OverflowError("int too small to convert")
         else:
             if self < 0:
                 raise OverflowError("can't convert negative int to unsigned")
diff --git a/src/future/types/newrange.py b/src/future/types/newrange.py
index 6d4ebe2f..dc5eb802 100644
--- a/src/future/types/newrange.py
+++ b/src/future/types/newrange.py
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ def index(self, value):
         raise ValueError('%r is not in range' % value)
 
     def count(self, value):
-        """Return the number of ocurrences of integer `value`
+        """Return the number of occurrences of integer `value`
         in the sequence this range represents."""
         # a value can occur exactly zero or one times
         return int(value in self)
diff --git a/src/libfuturize/fixer_util.py b/src/libfuturize/fixer_util.py
index 48e4689d..cf646b61 100644
--- a/src/libfuturize/fixer_util.py
+++ b/src/libfuturize/fixer_util.py
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ def suitify(parent):
     """
     for node in parent.children:
         if node.type == syms.suite:
-            # already in the prefered format, do nothing
+            # already in the preferred format, do nothing
             return
 
     # One-liners have no suite node, we have to fake one up
diff --git a/src/libfuturize/fixes/fix_metaclass.py b/src/libfuturize/fixes/fix_metaclass.py
index 2ac41c97..a7eee40d 100644
--- a/src/libfuturize/fixes/fix_metaclass.py
+++ b/src/libfuturize/fixes/fix_metaclass.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 
 def has_metaclass(parent):
     """ we have to check the cls_node without changing it.
-        There are two possiblities:
+        There are two possibilities:
           1)  clsdef => suite => simple_stmt => expr_stmt => Leaf('__meta')
           2)  clsdef => simple_stmt => expr_stmt => Leaf('__meta')
     """
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ def fixup_parse_tree(cls_node):
             # already in the preferred format, do nothing
             return
 
-    # !%@#! oneliners have no suite node, we have to fake one up
+    # !%@#! one-liners have no suite node, we have to fake one up
     for i, node in enumerate(cls_node.children):
         if node.type == token.COLON:
             break
diff --git a/tests/test_future/test_http_cookiejar.py b/tests/test_future/test_http_cookiejar.py
index 079026bc..8a98ed68 100644
--- a/tests/test_future/test_http_cookiejar.py
+++ b/tests/test_future/test_http_cookiejar.py
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ class CookieTests(unittest.TestCase):
 ##   comma-separated list, it'll be a headache to parse (at least my head
 ##   starts hurting every time I think of that code).
 ## - Expires: You'll get all sorts of date formats in the expires,
-##   including emtpy expires attributes ("expires="). Be as flexible as you
+##   including empty expires attributes ("expires="). Be as flexible as you
 ##   can, and certainly don't expect the weekday to be there; if you can't
 ##   parse it, just ignore it and pretend it's a session cookie.
 ## - Domain-matching: Netscape uses the 2-dot rule for _all_ domains, not
@@ -1734,7 +1734,7 @@ def test_session_cookies(self):
             key = "%s_after" % cookie.value
             counter[key] = counter[key] + 1
 
-            # a permanent cookie got lost accidently
+            # a permanent cookie got lost accidentally
         self.assertEqual(counter["perm_after"], counter["perm_before"])
             # a session cookie hasn't been cleared
         self.assertEqual(counter["session_after"], 0)
diff --git a/tests/test_future/test_standard_library.py b/tests/test_future/test_standard_library.py
index 1028f6fc..ad7e1486 100644
--- a/tests/test_future/test_standard_library.py
+++ b/tests/test_future/test_standard_library.py
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ def test_future_moves_dbm(self):
         from future.moves.dbm import ndbm
 
 
-# Running the following tkinter test causes the following bizzare test failure:
+# Running the following tkinter test causes the following bizarre test failure:
 #
 # ======================================================================
 # FAIL: test_open_default_encoding (future.tests.test_builtins.BuiltinTest)
diff --git a/tests/test_future/test_urllib.py b/tests/test_future/test_urllib.py
index 278bafb5..64e89760 100644
--- a/tests/test_future/test_urllib.py
+++ b/tests/test_future/test_urllib.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-"""Regresssion tests for urllib"""
+"""Regression tests for urllib"""
 from __future__ import absolute_import, division, unicode_literals
 
 import io
@@ -1229,7 +1229,7 @@ def open_spam(self, url):
 # Everywhere else they work ok, but on those machines, sometimes
 # fail in one of the tests, sometimes in other. I have a linux, and
 # the tests go ok.
-# If anybody has one of the problematic enviroments, please help!
+# If anybody has one of the problematic environments, please help!
 # .   Facundo
 #
 # def server(evt):
diff --git a/tests/test_future/test_urllib_toplevel.py b/tests/test_future/test_urllib_toplevel.py
index 93364e6d..442d00e5 100644
--- a/tests/test_future/test_urllib_toplevel.py
+++ b/tests/test_future/test_urllib_toplevel.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-"""Regresssion tests for urllib"""
+"""Regression tests for urllib"""
 from __future__ import absolute_import, division, unicode_literals
 
 import io
@@ -1247,7 +1247,7 @@ def open_spam(self, url):
 # Everywhere else they work ok, but on those machines, sometimes
 # fail in one of the tests, sometimes in other. I have a linux, and
 # the tests go ok.
-# If anybody has one of the problematic enviroments, please help!
+# If anybody has one of the problematic environments, please help!
 # .   Facundo
 #
 # def server(evt):