diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 4a90bb9..f7e178c 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ version 0.8.0:
version 0.7.2:
   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
-  - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
+  - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mechanism.
   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
   - better user net performances
diff --git a/accel/tcg/user-exec.c b/accel/tcg/user-exec.c
index d8b027f..d1b3073 100644
--- a/accel/tcg/user-exec.c
+++ b/accel/tcg/user-exec.c
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ static inline int handle_cpu_signal(uintptr_t pc, siginfo_t *info,
          * use that value directly.  Within cpu_restore_state_from_tb, we
          * assume PC comes from GETPC(), as used by the helper functions,
          * so we adjust the address by -GETPC_ADJ to form an address that
-         * is within the call insn, so that the address does not accidentially
+         * is within the call insn, so that the address does not accidentally
          * match the beginning of the next guest insn.  However, when the
          * pc comes from the signal frame it points to the actual faulting
          * host memory insn and not the return from a call insn.
diff --git a/audio/audio.c b/audio/audio.c
index ce8c6de..1a68cfa 100644
--- a/audio/audio.c
+++ b/audio/audio.c
@@ -1674,7 +1674,7 @@ static AudioState *audio_init(Audiodev *dev, const char *name)
         head = audio_handle_legacy_opts();
         /*
          * In case of legacy initialization, all Audiodevs in the list will have
-         * the same configuration (except the driver), so it does't matter which
+         * the same configuration (except the driver), so it doesn't matter which
          * one we chose.  We need an Audiodev to set up AudioState before we can
          * init a driver.  Also note that dev at this point is still in the
          * list.
diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index d9ac0e0..ba03eaf 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -2602,7 +2602,7 @@ static void bdrv_replace_child_noperm(BdrvChild *child,
 /*
  * Updates @child to change its reference to point to @new_bs, including
- * checking and applying the necessary permisson updates both to the old node
+ * checking and applying the necessary permission updates both to the old node
  * and to @new_bs.
  *
  * NULL is passed as @new_bs for removing the reference before freeing @child.
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 2acc4d1..e34ef0c 100644
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -3592,7 +3592,7 @@ EOF
     xfs="yes"
   else
     if test "$xfs" = "yes" ; then
-      feature_not_found "xfs" "Instal xfsprogs/xfslibs devel"
+      feature_not_found "xfs" "Install xfsprogs/xfslibs devel"
     fi
     xfs=no
   fi
diff --git a/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c b/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c
index de061a8..15c0e79 100644
--- a/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c
+++ b/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ static void statfs_to_prstatfs(ProxyStatFS *pr_stfs, struct statfs *stfs)
 /*
  * Gets stat/statfs information and packs in out_iovec structure
- * on success returns number of bytes packed in out_iovec struture
+ * on success returns number of bytes packed in out_iovec structure
  * otherwise returns -errno
  */
static int do_stat(int type, struct iovec *iovec, struct iovec *out_iovec)
diff --git a/hmp-commands.hx b/hmp-commands.hx
index 60f395c..27c4bbe 100644
--- a/hmp-commands.hx
+++ b/hmp-commands.hx
@@ -1267,7 +1267,7 @@ ERST
     },
SRST
``drive_backup``
-  Start a point-in-time copy of a block device to a specificed target.
+  Start a point-in-time copy of a block device to a specified target.
ERST
     {
diff --git a/libdecnumber/decNumber.c b/libdecnumber/decNumber.c
index 8c19702..1ffe458 100644
--- a/libdecnumber/decNumber.c
+++ b/libdecnumber/decNumber.c
@@ -5626,7 +5626,7 @@ static const uShort LNnn[90] = {
/*    would certainly save at least one if it were made ten times     */
/*    bigger, too (for truncated fractions 0.100 through 0.999).      */
/*    However, for most practical evaluations, at least four or five  */
-/*    iterations will be neede -- so this would only speed up by      */
+/*    iterations will be needed -- so this would only speed up by      */
/*    20-25% and that probably does not justify increasing the table  */
/*    size.                                                                  */
/*                                                                          */
diff --git a/qemu-img.c b/qemu-img.c
index 5308773..26369b8 100644
--- a/qemu-img.c
+++ b/qemu-img.c
@@ -1187,7 +1187,7 @@ static int64_t find_nonzero(const uint8_t *buf, int64_t n)
  * 'pnum' is set to the number of sectors (including and immediately following
  * the first one) that are known to be in the same allocated/unallocated state.
  * The function will try to align the end offset to alignment boundaries so
- * that the request will at least end aligned and consequtive requests will
+ * that the request will at least end aligned and consecutive requests will
  * also start at an aligned offset.
  */
static int is_allocated_sectors(const uint8_t *buf, int n, int *pnum,
diff --git a/qobject/qdict.c b/qobject/qdict.c
index 526de54..1079bd3 100644
--- a/qobject/qdict.c
+++ b/qobject/qdict.c
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ QDict *qdict_new(void)
}
 /**
- * tdb_hash(): based on the hash agorithm from gdbm, via tdb
+ * tdb_hash(): based on the hash algorithm from gdbm, via tdb
  * (from module-init-tools)
  */
static unsigned int tdb_hash(const char *name)
diff --git a/rules.mak b/rules.mak
index 694865b..07f0b4f 100644
--- a/rules.mak
+++ b/rules.mak
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ undefined-symbols = $(call find-symbols,$1,awk '$$2=="U"{print $$1}')
# linking executables that will load them. So we can look up symbol reference
# in LINK.
#
-# This is necessary because the exectuable itself may not use the function, in
+# This is necessary because the executable itself may not use the function, in
# which case the function would not be linked in. Then the DSO loading will
# fail because of the missing symbol.
process-archive-undefs = $(filter-out %.a %.mo,$1) \
diff --git a/scsi/pr-manager-helper.c b/scsi/pr-manager-helper.c
index 5acccfb..c16aae4 100644
--- a/scsi/pr-manager-helper.c
+++ b/scsi/pr-manager-helper.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static int pr_manager_helper_initialize(PRManagerHelper *pr_mgr,
     qio_channel_set_delay(QIO_CHANNEL(sioc), false);
     pr_mgr->ioc = QIO_CHANNEL(sioc);
-    /* A simple feature negotation protocol, even though there is
+    /* A simple feature negotiation protocol, even though there is
      * no optional feature right now.
      */
     r = pr_manager_helper_read(pr_mgr, &flags, sizeof(flags), errp);
--
2.26.2.windows.1
