diff --git a/src/transformers/generation_flax_utils.py b/src/transformers/generation_flax_utils.py
index fd26a605c48b..1c052aae7baf 100644
--- a/src/transformers/generation_flax_utils.py
+++ b/src/transformers/generation_flax_utils.py
@@ -15,9 +15,10 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 
+import inspect
 import warnings
 from functools import partial
-from typing import Dict, Optional
+from typing import Any, Dict, Optional
 
 import numpy as np
 
@@ -160,6 +161,24 @@ def _adapt_logits_for_beam_search(self, logits):
         """
         return logits
 
+    def _validate_model_kwargs(self, model_kwargs: Dict[str, Any]):
+        """Validates model kwargs for generation. Generate argument typos will also be caught here."""
+        unused_model_args = []
+        model_args = set(inspect.signature(self.prepare_inputs_for_generation).parameters)
+        # `kwargs` if often used to handle optional forward pass inputs like `attention_mask`. If
+        # `prepare_inputs_for_generation` doesn't accept `kwargs`, then a stricter check can be made ;)
+        if "kwargs" in model_args:
+            model_args |= set(inspect.signature(self.__call__).parameters)
+        for key, value in model_kwargs.items():
+            if value is not None and key not in model_args:
+                unused_model_args.append(key)
+
+        if unused_model_args:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"The following `model_kwargs` are not used by the model: {unused_model_args} (note: typos in the"
+                " generate arguments will also show up in this list)"
+            )
+
     def generate(
         self,
         input_ids: jnp.ndarray,
@@ -262,6 +281,9 @@ def generate(
         >>> outputs = model.generate(input_ids=input_ids, max_length=20, top_k=30, do_sample=True)
         >>> tokenizer.batch_decode(outputs, skip_special_tokens=True)
         ```"""
+        # Validate model kwargs
+        self._validate_model_kwargs(model_kwargs.copy())
+
         # set init values
         bos_token_id = bos_token_id if bos_token_id is not None else self.config.bos_token_id
         pad_token_id = pad_token_id if pad_token_id is not None else self.config.pad_token_id
diff --git a/tests/generation/test_generation_flax_utils.py b/tests/generation/test_generation_flax_utils.py
index b7b84d8db725..aabab559853b 100644
--- a/tests/generation/test_generation_flax_utils.py
+++ b/tests/generation/test_generation_flax_utils.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 import random
+import unittest
 
 import numpy as np
 
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@
 
     import jax.numpy as jnp
     from jax import jit
+    from transformers import AutoTokenizer, FlaxAutoModelForCausalLM
     from transformers.modeling_flax_pytorch_utils import load_flax_weights_in_pytorch_model
 
     os.environ["XLA_PYTHON_CLIENT_MEM_FRACTION"] = "0.12"  # assumed parallelism: 8
@@ -273,3 +275,22 @@ def test_beam_search_generate_attn_mask(self):
             jit_generation_outputs = jit_generate(input_ids, attention_mask=attention_mask).sequences
 
             self.assertListEqual(generation_outputs.tolist(), jit_generation_outputs.tolist())
+
+
+@require_flax
+class FlaxGenerationIntegrationTests(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_validate_generation_inputs(self):
+        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("hf-internal-testing/tiny-bert")
+        model = FlaxAutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("hf-internal-testing/tiny-bert-flax-only")
+
+        encoder_input_str = "Hello world"
+        input_ids = tokenizer(encoder_input_str, return_tensors="np").input_ids
+
+        # typos are quickly detected (the correct argument is `do_sample`)
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, "do_samples"):
+            model.generate(input_ids, do_samples=True)
+
+        # arbitrary arguments that will not be used anywhere are also not accepted
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, "foo"):
+            fake_model_kwargs = {"foo": "bar"}
+            model.generate(input_ids, **fake_model_kwargs)