diff --git a/src/hunspell/suggestmgr.cxx b/src/hunspell/suggestmgr.cxx
index d36d124..e0928e5 100644
--- a/src/hunspell/suggestmgr.cxx
+++ b/src/hunspell/suggestmgr.cxx
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ int SuggestMgr::testsug(char** wlst, const char * candidate, int wl, int ns, int
       return ns;
 }
 
-// generate suggestions for a mispelled word
+// generate suggestions for a misspelled word
 //    pass in address of array of char * pointers
 
 int SuggestMgr::suggest(char*** slst, const char * w, int nsug)
diff --git a/src/tools/hunspell.cxx b/src/tools/hunspell.cxx
index ccfde51..db9b024 100644
--- a/src/tools/hunspell.cxx
+++ b/src/tools/hunspell.cxx
@@ -1042,8 +1042,8 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
 			fprintf(stderr,gettext("  -G\t\tprint only correct words or lines\n"));
 			fprintf(stderr,gettext("  -h, --help\tdisplay this help and exit\n"));
 			fprintf(stderr,gettext("  -H\t\tHTML input file format\n"));
-			fprintf(stderr,gettext("  -l\t\tprint mispelled words\n"));
-			fprintf(stderr,gettext("  -L\t\tprint lines with mispelled words\n"));
+			fprintf(stderr,gettext("  -l\t\tprint misspelled words\n"));
+			fprintf(stderr,gettext("  -L\t\tprint lines with misspelled words\n"));
 			fprintf(stderr,gettext("  -n\t\tnroff/troff input file format\n"));
 			fprintf(stderr,gettext("  -p dict\tset dict custom dictionary\n"));
 			fprintf(stderr,gettext("  -t\t\tTeX/LaTeX input file format\n"));
@@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
 			fprintf(stderr,gettext("  -U\t\tautomatic correction of typical misspellings to stdout\n"));
 			fprintf(stderr,gettext("  -v, --version\tprint version number\n"));
 			fprintf(stderr,gettext("  -vv\t\tprint Ispell compatible version number\n"));
-			fprintf(stderr,gettext("  -w\t\tprint mispelled words (= lines) from one word/line input.\n"));
+			fprintf(stderr,gettext("  -w\t\tprint misspelled words (= lines) from one word/line input.\n"));
 			fprintf(stderr,"\n");
 			fprintf(stderr,gettext("Example: hunspell -d english file.txt  # interactive spelling\n"));
 			fprintf(stderr,gettext("         hunspell -l file.txt          # print misspelled words\n"));