diff --git a/src/suricata.c b/src/suricata.c
index 66da987db6..4c4539649a 100644
--- a/src/suricata.c
+++ b/src/suricata.c
@@ -2840,7 +2840,7 @@ int InitGlobal(void)
 
     SCSetThreadName("Suricata-Main");
 
-    /* Ignore SIGUSR2 as early as possble. We redeclare interest
+    /* Ignore SIGUSR2 as early as possible. We redeclare interest
      * once we're done launching threads. The goal is to either die
      * completely or handle any and all SIGUSR2s correctly.
      */
diff --git a/src/util-debug.c b/src/util-debug.c
index eb533badb2..e66fe54509 100644
--- a/src/util-debug.c
+++ b/src/util-debug.c
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ static inline void SCLogPrintToStream(FILE *fd, char *msg)
 }
 
 /**
- * \brief Output function that logs a character string throught the syslog iface
+ * \brief Output function that logs a character string through the syslog iface
  *
  * \param syslog_log_level Holds the syslog_log_level that the message should be
  *                         logged as
@@ -1126,7 +1126,7 @@ static inline void SCLogSetOPFilter(SCLogInitData *sc_lid, SCLogConfig *sc_lc)
 
 /**
  * \brief Returns a pointer to a new SCLogInitData.  This is a public interface
- *        intended to be used after the logging paramters are read from the
+ *        intended to be used after the logging parameters are read from the
  *        conf file
  *
  * \retval sc_lid Pointer to the newly created SCLogInitData