diff --git a/archive/copy.go b/archive/copy.go
index 0fd5830..a7ed12c 100644
--- a/archive/copy.go
+++ b/archive/copy.go
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ func PrepareArchiveCopy(srcContent Reader, srcInfo, dstInfo CopyInfo) (dstDir st
 }
 
 // rebaseArchiveEntries rewrites the given srcContent archive replacing
-// an occurance of oldBase with newBase at the beginning of entry names.
+// an occurrence of oldBase with newBase at the beginning of entry names.
 func rebaseArchiveEntries(srcContent Reader, oldBase, newBase string) Archive {
 	if oldBase == string(os.PathSeparator) {
 		// If oldBase specifies the root directory, use an empty string as
diff --git a/archive/diff.go b/archive/diff.go
index 23130a6..50656cb 100644
--- a/archive/diff.go
+++ b/archive/diff.go
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ func UnpackLayer(dest string, layer Reader) (size int64, err error) {
 		// TODO Windows. Once the registry is aware of what images are Windows-
 		// specific or Linux-specific, this warning should be changed to an error
 		// to cater for the situation where someone does manage to upload a Linux
-		// image but have it tagged as Windows inadvertantly.
+		// image but have it tagged as Windows inadvertently.
 		if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
 			if strings.Contains(hdr.Name, ":") {
 				logrus.Warnf("Windows: Ignoring %s (is this a Linux image?)", hdr.Name)
diff --git a/graphdb/graphdb.go b/graphdb/graphdb.go
index 2bfb52f..eca433f 100644
--- a/graphdb/graphdb.go
+++ b/graphdb/graphdb.go
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ func (db *Database) Parents(name string) ([]string, error) {
 	return db.parents(e)
 }
 
-// Refs returns the refrence count for a specified id.
+// Refs returns the reference count for a specified id.
 func (db *Database) Refs(id string) int {
 	db.mux.RLock()
 	defer db.mux.RUnlock()
diff --git a/graphdb/graphdb_test.go b/graphdb/graphdb_test.go
index 6912ab6..b9d2d63 100644
--- a/graphdb/graphdb_test.go
+++ b/graphdb/graphdb_test.go
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ func TestAddSelfAsChild(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestAddChildToNonExistantRoot(t *testing.T) {
+func TestAddChildToNonExistentRoot(t *testing.T) {
 	db, dbpath := newTestDb(t)
 	defer destroyTestDb(dbpath)
 
diff --git a/ioutils/readers.go b/ioutils/readers.go
index 10ebcb5..6b03210 100644
--- a/ioutils/readers.go
+++ b/ioutils/readers.go
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ func HashData(src io.Reader) (string, error) {
 }
 
 // OnEOFReader wraps a io.ReadCloser and a function
-// the fuction will run at the end of file or close the file.
+// the function will run at the end of file or close the file.
 type OnEOFReader struct {
 	Rc io.ReadCloser
 	Fn func()
diff --git a/mflag/flag.go b/mflag/flag.go
index fa8b045..dd31884 100644
--- a/mflag/flag.go
+++ b/mflag/flag.go
@@ -1094,7 +1094,7 @@ func (fs *FlagSet) ParseFlags(args []string, withHelp bool) error {
 }
 
 // ReportError is a utility method that prints a user-friendly message
-// containing the error that occured during parsing and a suggestion to get help
+// containing the error that occurred during parsing and a suggestion to get help
 func (fs *FlagSet) ReportError(str string, withHelp bool) {
 	if withHelp {
 		if os.Args[0] == fs.Name() {
diff --git a/namesgenerator/names-generator.go b/namesgenerator/names-generator.go
index fbb9908..8154f28 100644
--- a/namesgenerator/names-generator.go
+++ b/namesgenerator/names-generator.go
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ var (
 		// Homi J Bhabha - was an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Colloquially known as "father of Indian nuclear programme"- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_J._Bhabha
 		"bhabha",
 
-		// Bhaskara II - Ancient Indian mathematician-astronomer whose work on calculus predates Newton and Leibniz by over half a millenium - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bh%C4%81skara_II#Calculus
+		// Bhaskara II - Ancient Indian mathematician-astronomer whose work on calculus predates Newton and Leibniz by over half a millennium - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bh%C4%81skara_II#Calculus
 		"bhaskara",
 
 		// Elizabeth Blackwell - American doctor and first American woman to receive a medical degree - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Blackwell
diff --git a/stdcopy/stdcopy_test.go b/stdcopy/stdcopy_test.go
index a9fd73a..7351ce0 100644
--- a/stdcopy/stdcopy_test.go
+++ b/stdcopy/stdcopy_test.go
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ func TestWrite(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("Error while writing with StdWrite")
 	}
 	if n != len(data) {
-		t.Fatalf("Write should have writen %d byte but wrote %d.", len(data), n)
+		t.Fatalf("Write should have written %d byte but wrote %d.", len(data), n)
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/tailfile/tailfile.go b/tailfile/tailfile.go
index 83b852c..d580584 100644
--- a/tailfile/tailfile.go
+++ b/tailfile/tailfile.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Package tailfile provides helper functinos to read the nth lines of any
+// Package tailfile provides helper functions to read the nth lines of any
 // ReadSeeker.
 package tailfile
 
diff --git a/term/windows/ansi_reader.go b/term/windows/ansi_reader.go
index 53becb0..1246e8b 100644
--- a/term/windows/ansi_reader.go
+++ b/term/windows/ansi_reader.go
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ func (ar *ansiReader) Read(p []byte) (int, error) {
 		ar.buffer = keyBytes[len(p):]
 		keyBytes = keyBytes[:len(p)]
 	} else if len(keyBytes) == 0 {
-		logger.Debug("No key bytes returned from the translater")
+		logger.Debug("No key bytes returned from the translator")
 		return 0, nil
 	}