diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 281c176..fdd971d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@
 	* libarchive: Mark which entry strings are set; be accurate about
 	  distinguishing empty strings ("") from unset ones (NULL)
 	* tar: Don't crash reading entries with empty filenames
-	* libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test:  Better detaults:
+	* libarchive_test, bsdtar_test, bsdcpio_test:  Better defaults:
 	  run all tests, delete temp dirs, summarize repeated failures
 	* -no-undefined to libtool for Cygwin
 	* libarchive_test: Skip large file tests on systems with 32-bit off_t
diff --git a/libarchive/archive_entry.3 b/libarchive/archive_entry.3
index f5e22af..f75916c 100644
--- a/libarchive/archive_entry.3
+++ b/libarchive/archive_entry.3
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd Feburary 2, 2012
+.Dd February 2, 2012
 .Dt ARCHIVE_ENTRY 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
diff --git a/libarchive/archive_entry_acl.3 b/libarchive/archive_entry_acl.3
index 7ede7b7..534dbfa 100644
--- a/libarchive/archive_entry_acl.3
+++ b/libarchive/archive_entry_acl.3
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@
 .It Dv ARCHIVE_ENTRY_ACL_ENTRY_NO_PROPAGATE_INHERIT ( Sy n )
 Do not propagate inherit flags. Only first-level entries inherit ACLs.
 .It Dv ARCHIVE_ENTRY_ACL_ENTRY_SUCCESSFUL_ACCESS ( Sy S )
-Trigger alarm or audit on succesful access.
+Trigger alarm or audit on successful access.
 .It Dv ARCHIVE_ENTRY_ACL_ENTRY_FAILED_ACCESS ( Sy F )
 Trigger alarm or audit on failed access.
 .It Dv ARCHIVE_ENTRY_ACL_ENTRY_INHERITED ( Sy I )
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@
 .Fn archive_entry_acl_add_entry_w
 add a single ACL entry.
 For the access ACL and non-extended principals, the classic Unix permissions
-are updated. An archive enry cannot contain both POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL
+are updated. An archive entry cannot contain both POSIX.1e and NFSv4 ACL
 entries.
 .Pp
 .Fn archive_entry_acl_clear
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@
 for NFSv4 ACLs. For POSIX.1e ACLs if
 .Dv ARCHIVE_ENTRY_ACL_TYPE_ACCESS
 is included and at least one extended ACL entry is found,
-the three non-extened ACLs are added.
+the three non-extended ACLs are added.
 .Pp
 .Fn archive_entry_acl_from_text
 and
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@
 .Fn archive_entry_acl_to_text_w
 convert the ACL entries for the given type into a
 .Pq wide
-string of ACL entries separated by newline. If the the pointer
+string of ACL entries separated by newline. If the pointer
 .Fa len_p
 is not NULL, then the function shall return the length of the string
 .Pq not including the NULL terminator
diff --git a/libarchive/mtree.5 b/libarchive/mtree.5
index 16c8abe..e607e4a 100644
--- a/libarchive/mtree.5
+++ b/libarchive/mtree.5
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 .Pp
 When encoding file or pathnames, any backslash character or
 character outside of the 95 printable ASCII characters must be
-encoded as a a backslash followed by three
+encoded as a backslash followed by three
 octal digits.
 When reading mtree files, any appearance of a backslash
 followed by three octal digits should be converted into the
diff --git a/tar/bsdtar.1 b/tar/bsdtar.1
index 3e7abe8..0537bf3 100644
--- a/tar/bsdtar.1
+++ b/tar/bsdtar.1
@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@
 (x mode only)
 Preserve file permissions.
 Attempt to restore the full permissions, including owner, file modes, ACLs,
-extended atributes and extended file flags, if available, for each item
+extended attributes and extended file flags, if available, for each item
 extracted from the archive. This is te reverse of
 .Fl Fl no-same-permissions
 and the default if