diff --git a/unix/README.md b/unix/README.md
index 7d3c060e1..6e08a76a7 100644
--- a/unix/README.md
+++ b/unix/README.md
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ from the generated architecture-specific files listed below, and merge these
 into a common file for each OS.
 
 The merge is performed in the following steps:
-1. Construct the set of common code that is idential in all architecture-specific files.
+1. Construct the set of common code that is identical in all architecture-specific files.
 2. Write this common code to the merged file.
 3. Remove the common code from all architecture-specific files.
 
diff --git a/unix/internal/mkmerge/mkmerge.go b/unix/internal/mkmerge/mkmerge.go
index db8098c7f..52f1d12bb 100644
--- a/unix/internal/mkmerge/mkmerge.go
+++ b/unix/internal/mkmerge/mkmerge.go
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ func filterImports(fileSrc []byte) ([]byte, error) {
 }
 
 // merge extracts duplicate code from archFiles and merges it to mergeFile.
-// 1. Construct commonSet: the set of code that is idential in all archFiles.
+// 1. Construct commonSet: the set of code that is identical in all archFiles.
 // 2. Write the code in commonSet to mergedFile.
 // 3. Remove the commonSet code from all archFiles.
 func merge(mergedFile string, archFiles ...string) error {
diff --git a/unix/mkpost.go b/unix/mkpost.go
index c98a77d7f..ecacf010c 100644
--- a/unix/mkpost.go
+++ b/unix/mkpost.go
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ func main() {
 	b = controlRegsRegex.ReplaceAll(b, []byte("_ [0]uint64"))
 
 	// Remove fields that are added by glibc
-	// Note that this is unstable as the identifers are private.
+	// Note that this is unstable as the identifiers are private.
 	removeFieldsRegex := regexp.MustCompile(`X__glibc\S*`)
 	b = removeFieldsRegex.ReplaceAll(b, []byte("_"))
 
diff --git a/unix/mksyscall_zos_s390x.go b/unix/mksyscall_zos_s390x.go
index f4fd945b3..12db6378a 100644
--- a/unix/mksyscall_zos_s390x.go
+++ b/unix/mksyscall_zos_s390x.go
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ func processStream(s *bufio.Scanner, asm, go1 *bufio.Writer, m *map[string]int64
 		}
 		// Prepare arguments to Syscall.
 		var args []string
-		var fargs []string // for call fowarding
+		var fargs []string // for call forwarding
 		n := 0
 		for _, param := range in {
 			p := parseParam(param)
diff --git a/unix/syscall_aix.go b/unix/syscall_aix.go
index 67ce6cef2..6f15ba1ea 100644
--- a/unix/syscall_aix.go
+++ b/unix/syscall_aix.go
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ func Wait4(pid int, wstatus *WaitStatus, options int, rusage *Rusage) (wpid int,
 	var status _C_int
 	var r Pid_t
 	err = ERESTART
-	// AIX wait4 may return with ERESTART errno, while the processus is still
+	// AIX wait4 may return with ERESTART errno, while the process is still
 	// active.
 	for err == ERESTART {
 		r, err = wait4(Pid_t(pid), &status, options, rusage)
diff --git a/unix/syscall_solaris_test.go b/unix/syscall_solaris_test.go
index a9d486a10..738733b21 100644
--- a/unix/syscall_solaris_test.go
+++ b/unix/syscall_solaris_test.go
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ func TestEventPortErrors(t *testing.T) {
 	defer port.Close()
 	err = port.AssociatePath(path, stat, unix.FILE_MODIFIED, nil)
 	if err == nil {
-		t.Errorf("unexpected success associating nonexistant file")
+		t.Errorf("unexpected success associating nonexistent file")
 	}
 	err = port.DissociatePath(path)
 	if err == nil {
diff --git a/unix/syscall_zos_test.go b/unix/syscall_zos_test.go
index 2589e9ccd..c04f5a00f 100644
--- a/unix/syscall_zos_test.go
+++ b/unix/syscall_zos_test.go
@@ -3350,7 +3350,7 @@ func TestCreat(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal("Creat error: Cannot truncate file")
 	}
 	if string(b) != string(writeContent) {
-		t.Fatal("data missmatch: expect ", string(writeContent), " actual: ", string(b))
+		t.Fatal("data mismatch: expect ", string(writeContent), " actual: ", string(b))
 	}
 
 	// testing file create function
@@ -3375,7 +3375,7 @@ func TestCreat(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal("Creat error: Cannot truncate file")
 	}
 	if string(b) != string(writeContent) {
-		t.Fatal("data missmatch: expect ", string(writeContent), " actual: ", string(b))
+		t.Fatal("data mismatch: expect ", string(writeContent), " actual: ", string(b))
 	}
 
 }
diff --git a/unix/sysvshm_unix_test.go b/unix/sysvshm_unix_test.go
index cf234b83e..af90637c2 100644
--- a/unix/sysvshm_unix_test.go
+++ b/unix/sysvshm_unix_test.go
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ func TestSysvSharedMemory(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	if runtime.GOOS == "zos" {
-		// The returned shared memory alligns with the pagesize.
+		// The returned shared memory aligns with the pagesize.
 		// If pagesize is not 1024 bytes, the shared memory could be larger
 		if len(b2) < 1024 {
 			t.Fatalf("b1 len = %v, less than 1024", len(b2))
diff --git a/unix/xattr_test.go b/unix/xattr_test.go
index a8be3ec5b..dfa208f16 100644
--- a/unix/xattr_test.go
+++ b/unix/xattr_test.go
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ func TestXattr(t *testing.T) {
 
 	err = unix.Lsetxattr(s, xattrName, []byte(xattrDataSet), 0)
 	if err != nil {
-		// Linux and Android doen't support xattrs on symlinks according
+		// Linux and Android doesn't support xattrs on symlinks according
 		// to xattr(7), so just test that we get the proper error.
 		if (runtime.GOOS != "linux" && runtime.GOOS != "android") || err != unix.EPERM {
 			t.Fatalf("Lsetxattr: %v", err)
diff --git a/windows/dll_windows.go b/windows/dll_windows.go
index 115341fba..4e613cf63 100644
--- a/windows/dll_windows.go
+++ b/windows/dll_windows.go
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ func LoadDLL(name string) (dll *DLL, err error) {
 	return d, nil
 }
 
-// MustLoadDLL is like LoadDLL but panics if load operation failes.
+// MustLoadDLL is like LoadDLL but panics if load operation fails.
 func MustLoadDLL(name string) *DLL {
 	d, e := LoadDLL(name)
 	if e != nil {
diff --git a/windows/registry/registry_test.go b/windows/registry/registry_test.go
index c227a5db6..6e7bec505 100644
--- a/windows/registry/registry_test.go
+++ b/windows/registry/registry_test.go
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ func enumerateValues(t *testing.T, k registry.Key) {
 		}
 	}
 	for n, v := range haveNames {
-		t.Errorf("value %s (%v) is found while enumerating, but has not been cretaed", n, v)
+		t.Errorf("value %s (%v) is found while enumerating, but has not been created", n, v)
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/windows/svc/mgr/config.go b/windows/svc/mgr/config.go
index a6d3e8a88..3c7ba08f5 100644
--- a/windows/svc/mgr/config.go
+++ b/windows/svc/mgr/config.go
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ func toStringSlice(ps *uint16) []string {
 	return r
 }
 
-// Config retrieves service s configuration paramteres.
+// Config retrieves service s configuration parameters.
 func (s *Service) Config() (Config, error) {
 	var p *windows.QUERY_SERVICE_CONFIG
 	n := uint32(1024)
diff --git a/windows/svc/mgr/recovery.go b/windows/svc/mgr/recovery.go
index cdf880e13..ef2a68784 100644
--- a/windows/svc/mgr/recovery.go
+++ b/windows/svc/mgr/recovery.go
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ func (s *Service) RecoveryCommand() (string, error) {
 // SetRecoveryActionsOnNonCrashFailures sets the failure actions flag. If the
 // flag is set to false, recovery actions will only be performed if the service
 // terminates without reporting a status of SERVICE_STOPPED. If the flag is set
-// to true, recovery actions are also perfomed if the service stops with a
+// to true, recovery actions are also performed if the service stops with a
 // nonzero exit code.
 func (s *Service) SetRecoveryActionsOnNonCrashFailures(flag bool) error {
 	var setting windows.SERVICE_FAILURE_ACTIONS_FLAG
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ func (s *Service) SetRecoveryActionsOnNonCrashFailures(flag bool) error {
 // actions flag. If the flag is set to false, recovery actions will only be
 // performed if the service terminates without reporting a status of
 // SERVICE_STOPPED. If the flag is set to true, recovery actions are also
-// perfomed if the service stops with a nonzero exit code.
+// performed if the service stops with a nonzero exit code.
 func (s *Service) RecoveryActionsOnNonCrashFailures() (bool, error) {
 	b, err := s.queryServiceConfig2(windows.SERVICE_CONFIG_FAILURE_ACTIONS_FLAG)
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/windows/syscall_windows_test.go b/windows/syscall_windows_test.go
index b7703dfe1..1e686a4fd 100644
--- a/windows/syscall_windows_test.go
+++ b/windows/syscall_windows_test.go
@@ -830,9 +830,9 @@ func FuzzComposeCommandLine(f *testing.F) {
 					// If args[0] contains a space or control character, we must quote it
 					// to avoid it being split into multiple arguments.
 					// If args[0] already starts with a quote character, we have no way
-					// to indicate that that character is part of the literal argument.
+					// to indicate that character is part of the literal argument.
 					// In either case, if the string already contains a quote character
-					// we must avoid misinterpriting that character as the end of the
+					// we must avoid misinterpreting that character as the end of the
 					// quoted argument string.
 					//
 					// Unfortunately, ComposeCommandLine does not return an error, so we