diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 68097b9133..bc6f096db9 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -228,8 +228,8 @@ AC_MSG_RESULT($have___thread)
 AC_C_BIGENDIAN(
    AC_DEFINE([IEEE_MC68k], 1, [machine is bigendian]),
    AC_DEFINE([IEEE_8087], 1, [machine is littleendian]),
-   AC_MSG_ERROR(unknown endianess),
-   AC_MSG_ERROR(universial endianess not supported)
+   AC_MSG_ERROR(unknown endianness),
+   AC_MSG_ERROR(universial endianness not supported)
 )
 
 dnl Oniguruma
diff --git a/docs/content/manual/v1.3/manual.yml b/docs/content/manual/v1.3/manual.yml
index b2e387d7c5..3e63f76dc1 100644
--- a/docs/content/manual/v1.3/manual.yml
+++ b/docs/content/manual/v1.3/manual.yml
@@ -1232,7 +1232,7 @@ sections:
       - title: Complex assignments
         body: |
           Lots more things are allowed on the left-hand side of a jq assignment
-          than in most langauges. We've already seen simple field accesses on
+          than in most languages. We've already seen simple field accesses on
           the left hand side, and it's no surprise that array accesses work just
           as well:
 
diff --git a/docs/content/manual/v1.4/manual.yml b/docs/content/manual/v1.4/manual.yml
index 206bf2e181..25e28c3127 100644
--- a/docs/content/manual/v1.4/manual.yml
+++ b/docs/content/manual/v1.4/manual.yml
@@ -1634,7 +1634,7 @@ sections:
       - title: Complex assignments
         body: |
           Lots more things are allowed on the left-hand side of a jq assignment
-          than in most langauges. We've already seen simple field accesses on
+          than in most languages. We've already seen simple field accesses on
           the left hand side, and it's no surprise that array accesses work just
           as well:
 
diff --git a/jq.1.prebuilt b/jq.1.prebuilt
index f6035b9b79..c98be3ae57 100644
--- a/jq.1.prebuilt
+++ b/jq.1.prebuilt
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Use the \fBapplication/json\-seq\fR MIME type scheme for separating JSON texts i
 \fB\-\-stream\fR:
 .
 .IP
-Parse the input in streaming fashion, outputing arrays of path and leaf values (scalars and empty arrays or empty objects)\. For example, \fB"a"\fR becomes \fB[[],"a"]\fR, and \fB[[],"a",["b"]]\fR becomes \fB[[0],[]]\fR, \fB[[1],"a"]\fR, and \fB[[1,0],"b"]\fR\.
+Parse the input in streaming fashion, outputting arrays of path and leaf values (scalars and empty arrays or empty objects)\. For example, \fB"a"\fR becomes \fB[[],"a"]\fR, and \fB[[],"a",["b"]]\fR becomes \fB[[0],[]]\fR, \fB[[1],"a"]\fR, and \fB[[1,0],"b"]\fR\.
 .
 .IP
 This is useful for processing very large inputs\. Use this in conjunction with filtering and the \fBreduce\fR and \fBforeach\fR syntax to reduce large inputs incrementally\.
diff --git a/src/builtin.c b/src/builtin.c
index 139bdfe68a..25af28646a 100644
--- a/src/builtin.c
+++ b/src/builtin.c
@@ -1465,7 +1465,7 @@ static jv f_gmtime(jq_state *jq, jv a) {
   jv_free(a);
   tmp = gmtime_r(&secs, &tm);
   if (tmp == NULL)
-    return jv_invalid_with_msg(jv_string("errror converting number of seconds since epoch to datetime"));
+    return jv_invalid_with_msg(jv_string("error converting number of seconds since epoch to datetime"));
   a = tm2jv(tmp);
   return jv_array_set(a, 5, jv_number(jv_number_value(jv_array_get(jv_copy(a), 5)) + (fsecs - floor(fsecs))));
 }
@@ -1480,7 +1480,7 @@ static jv f_gmtime(jq_state *jq, jv a) {
   jv_free(a);
   tmp = gmtime(&secs);
   if (tmp == NULL)
-    return jv_invalid_with_msg(jv_string("errror converting number of seconds since epoch to datetime"));
+    return jv_invalid_with_msg(jv_string("error converting number of seconds since epoch to datetime"));
   a = tm2jv(tmp);
   return jv_array_set(a, 5, jv_number(jv_number_value(jv_array_get(jv_copy(a), 5)) + (fsecs - floor(fsecs))));
 }
diff --git a/src/compile.h b/src/compile.h
index f9e8cd5514..cccd661dcb 100644
--- a/src/compile.h
+++ b/src/compile.h
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ void block_free(block);
 
 
 // Here's some horrible preprocessor gunk so that code
-// sequences can be contructed as BLOCK(block1, block2, block3)
+// sequences can be constructed as BLOCK(block1, block2, block3)
 
 #define BLOCK_1(b1) (b1)
 #define BLOCK_2(b1,b2) (block_join((b1),(b2)))
diff --git a/tests/jq.test b/tests/jq.test
index 1e0ce071d6..2d5c36b887 100644
--- a/tests/jq.test
+++ b/tests/jq.test
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ null
 1
 
 #
-# Check that various builtins evalute all arguments where appropriate,
+# Check that various builtins evaluate all arguments where appropriate,
 # doing cartesian products where appropriate.
 #
 
@@ -1715,4 +1715,4 @@ false
 
 . |= try . catch .
 1
-1
\ No newline at end of file
+1