diff --git a/Completion/Base/Completer/_expand_alias b/Completion/Base/Completer/_expand_alias
index 8240e4162..0f165a968 100644
--- a/Completion/Base/Completer/_expand_alias
+++ b/Completion/Base/Completer/_expand_alias
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ if [[ -n $tmp ]]; then
     if [[ $tmpa[1] = $word && $tmp = $aliases[$word] ]]; then
       # This is an active regular alias and the first word in the result
       # is the same as what was on the line already.  Quote it so
-      # that it doesn't get reexanded on execution.
+      # that it doesn't get reexpanded on execution.
       #
       # Strictly we also need to check if the original word matches
       # a later word in the expansion and the previous words are
diff --git a/Src/exec.c b/Src/exec.c
index bc07e8c39..ea8dc7f57 100644
--- a/Src/exec.c
+++ b/Src/exec.c
@@ -1387,7 +1387,7 @@ execlist(Estate state, int dont_change_job, int exiting)
 	*list_pipe_text = '\0';
     }
 
-    /* Loop over all sets of comands separated by newline, *
+    /* Loop over all sets of commands separated by newline, *
      * semi-colon or ampersand (`sublists').               */
     code = *state->pc++;
     if (wc_code(code) != WC_LIST) {
@@ -3034,7 +3034,7 @@ execcmd_exec(Estate state, Execcmd_params eparams,
 	/*
 	 * preargs contains args that have been expanded by prefork.
 	 * Running execcmd_getargs() causes any argument available
-	 * in args to be exanded where necessary and transferred to
+	 * in args to be expanded where necessary and transferred to
 	 * preargs.  We call execcmd_getargs() every time we need to
 	 * analyse an argument not available in preargs, though there is
 	 * no guarantee a further argument will be available.
diff --git a/Src/init.c b/Src/init.c
index 61f759ded..277f62f21 100644
--- a/Src/init.c
+++ b/Src/init.c
@@ -1283,7 +1283,7 @@ setupvals(char *cmd, char *runscript, char *zsh_name)
     adjustwinsize(0);
 #else
     /* columns and lines are normally zero, unless something different *
-     * was inhereted from the environment.  If either of them are zero *
+     * was inherited from the environment.  If either of them are zero *
      * the setiparam calls below set them to the defaults from termcap */
     setiparam("COLUMNS", zterm_columns);
     setiparam("LINES", zterm_lines);
diff --git a/Src/parse.c b/Src/parse.c
index 334365649..8edc701f4 100644
--- a/Src/parse.c
+++ b/Src/parse.c
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ init_parse_status(void)
     /*
      * These variables are currently declared by the parser, so we
      * initialise them here.  Possibly they are more naturally declared
-     * by the lexical anaylser; however, as they are used for signalling
+     * by the lexical analyser; however, as they are used for signalling
      * between the two it's a bit ambiguous.  We clear them when
      * using the lexical analyser for strings as well as here.
      */
diff --git a/Src/utils.c b/Src/utils.c
index ce4e875fd..69e2acdff 100644
--- a/Src/utils.c
+++ b/Src/utils.c
@@ -2059,7 +2059,7 @@ redup(int x, int y)
  * Add an fd opened ithin a module.
  *
  * fdt is the type of the fd; see the FDT_ definitions in zsh.h.
- * The most likely falures are:
+ * The most likely failures are:
  *
  * FDT_EXTERNAL: the fd can be used within the shell for normal I/O but
  * it will not be closed automatically or by normal shell syntax.
diff --git a/Src/zsh.h b/Src/zsh.h
index 090abf8f5..46dc3f956 100644
--- a/Src/zsh.h
+++ b/Src/zsh.h
@@ -1667,7 +1667,7 @@ enum zpc_chars {
     ZPC_KSH_BANG,               /* ! for !(...) in KSH_GLOB */
     ZPC_KSH_BANG2,              /* ! for !(...) in KSH_GLOB, untokenised */
     ZPC_KSH_AT,                 /* @ for @(...) in KSH_GLOB */
-    ZPC_COUNT			/* Number of special chararacters */
+    ZPC_COUNT			/* Number of special characters */
 };
 
 /*
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index bca99b7f8..b5548c2b9 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1342,7 +1342,7 @@ dnl  Check if tgetent accepts NULL (and will allocate its own termcap buffer)
 dnl  Some termcaps reportedly accept a zero buffer, but then dump core
 dnl  in tgetstr().
 dnl  Under Cygwin test program crashes but exit code is still 0. So,
-dnl  we test for a file that porgram should create
+dnl  we test for a file that program should create
 AH_TEMPLATE([TGETENT_ACCEPTS_NULL],
 [Define to 1 if tgetent() accepts NULL as a buffer.])
 AC_CACHE_CHECK(if tgetent accepts NULL,
@@ -1495,7 +1495,7 @@ $AWK '{ if ($1 ~ /sig/) files[[$1]] = $1 }
   END { for (var in files) print var }'`"
 rm -f nametmp.c
 if test -z "$sigfile_list"; then
-  dnl In case we don't get the stuff from the preprocesor, use the old
+  dnl In case we don't get the stuff from the preprocessor, use the old
   dnl list of standard places.
   sigfile_list="/usr/include/sys/iso/signal_iso.h
 /usr/include/bsd/sys/signal.h