diff --git a/bsd-user/errno_defs.h b/bsd-user/errno_defs.h
index f3e8ac3488..abe70119d9 100644
--- a/bsd-user/errno_defs.h
+++ b/bsd-user/errno_defs.h
@@ -150,5 +150,5 @@
 
 /* Internal errors: */
-#define TARGET_EJUSTRETURN      254             /* Just return without modifing regs */
+#define TARGET_EJUSTRETURN      254             /* Just return without modifying regs */
 #define TARGET_ERESTART         255             /* Restart syscall */
 
diff --git a/bsd-user/freebsd/target_os_siginfo.h b/bsd-user/freebsd/target_os_siginfo.h
index 4573738752..6c282d8502 100644
--- a/bsd-user/freebsd/target_os_siginfo.h
+++ b/bsd-user/freebsd/target_os_siginfo.h
@@ -73,5 +73,5 @@ typedef struct target_siginfo {
         } _mesgp;
 
-        /* SIGPOLL -- Not really genreated in FreeBSD ??? */
+        /* SIGPOLL -- Not really generated in FreeBSD ??? */
         struct {
             int _band;  /* POLL_IN, POLL_OUT, POLL_MSG */
diff --git a/bsd-user/freebsd/target_os_stack.h b/bsd-user/freebsd/target_os_stack.h
index 0590133291..d15fc3263f 100644
--- a/bsd-user/freebsd/target_os_stack.h
+++ b/bsd-user/freebsd/target_os_stack.h
@@ -26,5 +26,5 @@
 
 /*
- * The inital FreeBSD stack is as follows:
+ * The initial FreeBSD stack is as follows:
  * (see kern/kern_exec.c exec_copyout_strings() )
  *
@@ -60,5 +60,5 @@ static inline int setup_initial_stack(struct bsd_binprm *bprm,
     p -= sizeof(struct target_ps_strings);
 
-    /* Add machine depedent sigcode. */
+    /* Add machine dependent sigcode. */
     p -= TARGET_SZSIGCODE;
     if (setup_sigtramp(p, (unsigned)offsetof(struct target_sigframe, sf_uc),
diff --git a/bsd-user/freebsd/target_os_user.h b/bsd-user/freebsd/target_os_user.h
index f036a32343..1ca7b5ab17 100644
--- a/bsd-user/freebsd/target_os_user.h
+++ b/bsd-user/freebsd/target_os_user.h
@@ -27,5 +27,5 @@ struct target_priority {
     uint8_t     pri_class;      /* Scheduling class. */
     uint8_t     pri_level;      /* Normal priority level. */
-    uint8_t     pri_native;     /* Priority before propogation. */
+    uint8_t     pri_native;     /* Priority before propagation. */
     uint8_t     pri_user;       /* User priority based on p_cpu and p_nice. */
 };
diff --git a/bsd-user/qemu.h b/bsd-user/qemu.h
index 8f2d6a3c78..470d0337d5 100644
--- a/bsd-user/qemu.h
+++ b/bsd-user/qemu.h
@@ -119,5 +119,5 @@ extern const char *qemu_uname_release;
  * TARGET_ARG_MAX defines the number of bytes allocated for arguments
  * and envelope for the new program. 256k should suffice for a reasonable
- * maxiumum env+arg in 32-bit environments, bump it up to 512k for !ILP32
+ * maximum env+arg in 32-bit environments, bump it up to 512k for !ILP32
  * platforms.
  */
diff --git a/bsd-user/signal-common.h b/bsd-user/signal-common.h
index 6f90345bb2..c044e81165 100644
--- a/bsd-user/signal-common.h
+++ b/bsd-user/signal-common.h
@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ void target_to_host_sigset(sigset_t *d, const target_sigset_t *s);
  * host_to_target_siginfo_noswap() and tswap_siginfo(); it does not appear
  * either within host siginfo_t or in target_siginfo structures which we get
- * from the guest userspace program. Linux kenrels use this internally, but BSD
+ * from the guest userspace program. Linux kernels use this internally, but BSD
  * kernels don't do this, but its a useful abstraction.
  *
  * The linux-user version of this uses the top 16 bits, but FreeBSD's SI_USER
- * and other signal indepenent SI_ codes have bit 16 set, so we only use the top
+ * and other signal independent SI_ codes have bit 16 set, so we only use the top
  * byte instead.
  *
diff --git a/bsd-user/signal.c b/bsd-user/signal.c
index f4e078ee1d..6e77dd0b4d 100644
--- a/bsd-user/signal.c
+++ b/bsd-user/signal.c
@@ -45,5 +45,5 @@ static inline int sas_ss_flags(TaskState *ts, unsigned long sp)
 
 /*
- * The BSD ABIs use the same singal numbers across all the CPU architectures, so
+ * The BSD ABIs use the same signal numbers across all the CPU architectures, so
  * (unlike Linux) these functions are just the identity mapping. This might not
  * be true for XyzBSD running on AbcBSD, which doesn't currently work.
@@ -242,5 +242,5 @@ static inline void host_to_target_siginfo_noswap(target_siginfo_t *tinfo,
         /*
          * Unsure that this can actually be generated, and our support for
-         * capsicum is somewhere between weak and non-existant, but if we get
+         * capsicum is somewhere between weak and non-existent, but if we get
          * one, then we know what to save.
          */
@@ -320,5 +320,5 @@ int block_signals(void)
      * It's OK to block everything including SIGSEGV, because we won't run any
      * further guest code before unblocking signals in
-     * process_pending_signals(). We depend on the FreeBSD behaivor here where
+     * process_pending_signals(). We depend on the FreeBSD behavior here where
      * this will only affect this thread's signal mask. We don't use
      * pthread_sigmask which might seem more correct because that routine also
