diff --git a/bin/ed/POSIX b/bin/ed/POSIX
index f81bb0ce1a14..dab1a2bc90f3 100644
--- a/bin/ed/POSIX
+++ b/bin/ed/POSIX
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ DEVIATIONS
 2) Since the behavior of `u' (undo) within a `g' (global) command list is
    not specified by POSIX, it follows the behavior of the SunOS ed:
    undo forces a global command list to be executed only once, rather than
-   for each line matching a global pattern.  In addtion, each instance of
+   for each line matching a global pattern.  In addition, each instance of
    `u' within a global command undoes all previous commands (including
    undo's) in the command list.  This seems the best way, since the
    alternatives are either too complicated to implement or too confusing
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ DEVIATIONS
 
    The global/undo combination is useful for masking errors that
    would otherwise cause a script to fail.  For instance, an ed script
-   to remove any occurences of either `censor1' or `censor2' might be
+   to remove any occurrences of either `censor1' or `censor2' might be
    written as:
    	ed - file <<EOF
 	1g/.*/u\
diff --git a/bin/ps/ps.c b/bin/ps/ps.c
index 6bb94bfdd2ed..fb2b752b2b9b 100644
--- a/bin/ps/ps.c
+++ b/bin/ps/ps.c
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		case 'A':
 			/*
 			 * Exactly the same as `-ax'.   This has been
-			 * added for compatability with SUSv3, but for
+			 * added for compatibility with SUSv3, but for
 			 * now it will not be described in the man page.
 			 */
 			nselectors++;
diff --git a/bin/sh/mkinit.c b/bin/sh/mkinit.c
index 82f2a5523405..866b238042f9 100644
--- a/bin/sh/mkinit.c
+++ b/bin/sh/mkinit.c
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
 
 
 /*
- * A text structure is basicly just a string that grows as more characters
+ * A text structure is basically just a string that grows as more characters
  * are added onto the end of it.  It is implemented as a linked list of
  * blocks of characters.  The routines addstr and addchar append a string
  * or a single character, respectively, to a text structure.  Writetext