diff --git a/util/cpuinfo-aarch64.c b/util/cpuinfo-aarch64.c
index ababc39550..7d39f47e3b 100644
--- a/util/cpuinfo-aarch64.c
+++ b/util/cpuinfo-aarch64.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
- * Host specific cpu indentification for AArch64.
+ * Host specific cpu identification for AArch64.
  */
 
@@ -34,5 +34,5 @@ static bool sysctl_for_bool(const char *name)
      * We might in the future ask for properties not present in older kernels,
      * but we're only asking about static properties, all of which should be
-     * 'int'.  So we shouln't see ENOMEM (val too small), or any of the other
+     * 'int'.  So we shouldn't see ENOMEM (val too small), or any of the other
      * more exotic errors.
      */
diff --git a/util/cpuinfo-i386.c b/util/cpuinfo-i386.c
index 3a7b7e0ad1..b2ed65bb10 100644
--- a/util/cpuinfo-i386.c
+++ b/util/cpuinfo-i386.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
- * Host specific cpu indentification for x86.
+ * Host specific cpu identification for x86.
  */
 
@@ -75,5 +75,5 @@ unsigned __attribute__((constructor)) cpuinfo_init(void)
                  *
                  * AMD has provided an even stronger guarantee that processors
-                 * with AVX provide 16-byte atomicity for all cachable,
+                 * with AVX provide 16-byte atomicity for all cacheable,
                  * naturally aligned single loads and stores, e.g. MOVDQU.
                  *
diff --git a/util/cpuinfo-ppc.c b/util/cpuinfo-ppc.c
index 7212afa45d..1ea3db0ac8 100644
--- a/util/cpuinfo-ppc.c
+++ b/util/cpuinfo-ppc.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
- * Host specific cpu indentification for ppc.
+ * Host specific cpu identification for ppc.
  */
 
diff --git a/util/main-loop.c b/util/main-loop.c
index 014c795916..797b640c41 100644
--- a/util/main-loop.c
+++ b/util/main-loop.c
@@ -48,5 +48,5 @@
 /*
  * Disable CFI checks.
- * We are going to call a signal hander directly. Such handler may or may not
+ * We are going to call a signal handler directly. Such handler may or may not
  * have been defined in our binary, so there's no guarantee that the pointer
  * used to set the handler is a cfi-valid pointer. Since the handlers are
diff --git a/util/oslib-posix.c b/util/oslib-posix.c
index 760390b31e..4d583da7ce 100644
--- a/util/oslib-posix.c
+++ b/util/oslib-posix.c
@@ -672,5 +672,5 @@ void qemu_free_stack(void *stack, size_t sz)
 /*
  * Disable CFI checks.
- * We are going to call a signal hander directly. Such handler may or may not
+ * We are going to call a signal handler directly. Such handler may or may not
  * have been defined in our binary, so there's no guarantee that the pointer
  * used to set the handler is a cfi-valid pointer. Since the handlers are
diff --git a/util/qdist.c b/util/qdist.c
index 5f75e24c29..ef3566b03a 100644
--- a/util/qdist.c
+++ b/util/qdist.c
@@ -211,5 +211,5 @@ void qdist_bin__internal(struct qdist *to, const struct qdist *from, size_t n)
         /*
          * To avoid double-counting we capture [left, right) ranges, except for
-         * the righmost bin, which captures a [left, right] range.
+         * the rightmost bin, which captures a [left, right] range.
          */
         while (j < from->n && (from->entries[j].x < right || i == n - 1)) {
diff --git a/util/qemu-sockets.c b/util/qemu-sockets.c
index 892d33f5e6..83e84b1186 100644
--- a/util/qemu-sockets.c
+++ b/util/qemu-sockets.c
@@ -930,5 +930,5 @@ static int unix_listen_saddr(UnixSocketAddress *saddr,
     if (pathbuf != NULL) {
         /*
-         * This dummy fd usage silences the mktemp() unsecure warning.
+         * This dummy fd usage silences the mktemp() insecure warning.
          * Using mkstemp() doesn't make things more secure here
          * though.  bind() complains about existing files, so we have
diff --git a/util/rcu.c b/util/rcu.c
index 30a7e22026..e587bcc483 100644
--- a/util/rcu.c
+++ b/util/rcu.c
@@ -356,5 +356,5 @@ void drain_call_rcu(void)
      * Note that since we have only one global queue of the RCU callbacks,
      * we also end up waiting for most of RCU callbacks that were registered
-     * on the other threads, but this is a side effect that shoudn't be
+     * on the other threads, but this is a side effect that shouldn't be
      * assumed.
      */
