diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2331019..3bad46c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ to community contributions and encouragement.
   * Corrected cases where OMD was not exactly a dropin for OrderedDict
   * conditional availability of [gcutils.get_all][gcutils.get_all] based on pypy or cpython, also
     [gcutils.is_tracked][gcutils.is_tracked] was added in 2.7, so making [gcutils.get_all][gcutils.get_all] work with 2.6
-  * Made namedutils backwards compatibilty for python 2.6 best effort
+  * Made namedutils backwards compatibility for python 2.6 best effort
   * Fix invalid part_path usage in [fileutils.AtomicSaver][fileutils.AtomicSaver]
 
 0.5.0
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ added in this release.
   * fix a bug in [dictutils.OrderedMultiDict][dictutils.OrderedMultiDict]'s .add()
   * adding initial reimplementation of OMD
   * adding some tests to dictutils
-  * update boltons formatutils to match what's goin on in lithoxyl
+  * update boltons formatutils to match what's going on in lithoxyl
   * remove infer_pos_args() from strutils (already in formatutils)
   * add formatutils to boltons
   * fix a potential infinite recursion in LocalTZ
diff --git a/boltons/debugutils.py b/boltons/debugutils.py
index 03f3c6c..98c89f0 100644
--- a/boltons/debugutils.py
+++ b/boltons/debugutils.py
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ def wrap_trace(obj, hook=trace_print_hook,
        hook (callable): A function called once for every event. See
            below for details.
        which (str): One or more attribute names to trace, or a
-           function accepting attribute name and value, and returing
+           function accepting attribute name and value, and returning
            True/False.
        events (str): One or more kinds of events to call *hook*
            on. Expected values are ``['get', 'set', 'del', 'call',
diff --git a/boltons/formatutils.py b/boltons/formatutils.py
index dad6b65..d1ac66c 100644
--- a/boltons/formatutils.py
+++ b/boltons/formatutils.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ def construct_format_field_str(fname, fspec, conv):
 
 
 def split_format_str(fstr):
-    """Does very basic spliting of a format string, returns a list of
+    """Does very basic splitting of a format string, returns a list of
     strings. For full tokenization, see :func:`tokenize_format_str`.
 
     """
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ def get_format_args(fstr):
 def tokenize_format_str(fstr, resolve_pos=True):
     """Takes a format string, turns it into a list of alternating string
     literals and :class:`BaseFormatField` tokens. By default, also
-    infers anonymous positional references into explict, numbered
+    infers anonymous positional references into explicit, numbered
     positional references. To disable this behavior set *resolve_pos*
     to ``False``.
     """
diff --git a/boltons/iterutils.py b/boltons/iterutils.py
index 317be09..8f93cb2 100644
--- a/boltons/iterutils.py
+++ b/boltons/iterutils.py
@@ -1139,7 +1139,7 @@ class SequentialGUIDerator(GUIDerator):
     value and increments every iteration. This yields GUIDs which are
     of course unique, but also ordered and lexicographically sortable.
 
-    The SequentialGUIDerator is aronud 50% faster than the normal
+    The SequentialGUIDerator is around 50% faster than the normal
     GUIDerator, making it almost 20x as fast as the built-in uuid
     module. By default it is also more compact, partly due to its
     96-bit (24-hexdigit) default length. 96 bits of randomness means that
diff --git a/boltons/queueutils.py b/boltons/queueutils.py
index 08eac34..59d478a 100644
--- a/boltons/queueutils.py
+++ b/boltons/queueutils.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ cooperative/single-threaded use cases.
 The ``queueutils`` module currently provides two Queue
 implementations: :class:`HeapPriorityQueue`, based on a heap, and
 :class:`SortedPriorityQueue`, based on a sorted list. Both use a
-unified API based on :class:`BasePriortyQueue` to facilitate testing
+unified API based on :class:`BasePriorityQueue` to facilitate testing
 the slightly different performance characteristics on various
 application use cases.
 
diff --git a/boltons/strutils.py b/boltons/strutils.py
index 9fe7340..52f613d 100644
--- a/boltons/strutils.py
+++ b/boltons/strutils.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 """So much practical programming involves string manipulation, which
-Python readily accomodates. Still, there are dozens of basic and
+Python readily accommodates. Still, there are dozens of basic and
 common capabilities missing from the standard library, several of them
 provided by ``strutils``.
 """
diff --git a/boltons/tbutils.py b/boltons/tbutils.py
index 75979da..f5dad9c 100644
--- a/boltons/tbutils.py
+++ b/boltons/tbutils.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ except NameError:
 
 # TODO: chaining primitives?  what are real use cases where these help?
 
-# TODO: print_* for backwards compatability
+# TODO: print_* for backwards compatibility
 # __all__ = ['extract_stack', 'extract_tb', 'format_exception',
 #            'format_exception_only', 'format_list', 'format_stack',
 #            'format_tb', 'print_exc', 'format_exc', 'print_exception',
diff --git a/tests/test_ioutils.py b/tests/test_ioutils.py
index 772687b..b14dd66 100644
--- a/tests/test_ioutils.py
+++ b/tests/test_ioutils.py
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ class TestSpooledStringIO(TestCase, BaseTestMixin, AssertionsMixin):
         self.assertEqual(self.spooled_flo.len, len(self.test_str))
 
     def test_len_rollover(self):
-        """Make sure len propery works with on-disk flo"""
+        """Make sure len property works with on-disk flo"""
         self.spooled_flo.write(self.test_str)
         self.spooled_flo.rollover()
         self.assertEqual(self.spooled_flo.len, len(self.test_str))
diff --git a/tests/test_iterutils.py b/tests/test_iterutils.py
index 94da99d..753dc37 100644
--- a/tests/test_iterutils.py
+++ b/tests/test_iterutils.py
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ class TestRemap(object):
 
     def test_prepop(self):
         """Demonstrating normalization and ID addition through prepopulating
-        the objects wth an enter callback.
+        the objects with an enter callback.
         """
         base_obj = {'name': None,
                     'rank': None,
diff --git a/tests/test_mathutils.py b/tests/test_mathutils.py
index 4e8b487..9556f12 100644
--- a/tests/test_mathutils.py
+++ b/tests/test_mathutils.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def test_clamp_examples():
     assert 1 == clamp(7.7, upper=1)
 
 def test_clamp_transparent():
-    """clamp(x) should equal x beacause both limits are omitted"""
+    """clamp(x) should equal x because both limits are omitted"""
     assert clamp(0) == 0
     assert clamp(1) == 1
     assert clamp(10**100) == 10**100
diff --git a/tests/test_urlutils.py b/tests/test_urlutils.py
index e1570ab..924bf45 100644
--- a/tests/test_urlutils.py
+++ b/tests/test_urlutils.py
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ def test_netloc_slashes():
     url.path = '/x/y/z'
     assert url.to_text() == 'ztp:/x/y/z'
 
-    # also works when the input doesn't includ '//'
+    # also works when the input doesn't include '//'
     url = URL()
     url.scheme = 'git+ftp'
     url.path = '/x/y/z/'