diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 26e700bcd8c..8a4bacf3f4f 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ if (XCODE_VERSION)
   set(CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_RELEASE ${LIBDIR_BUILD}/gnucash)
 endif()
 
-# For binarines
+# For binaries
 set(CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY         ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/bin)
 if (XCODE_VERSION)
   set(CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_DEBUG   ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/bin)
diff --git a/gnucash/gnome-utils/dialog-totd.c b/gnucash/gnome-utils/dialog-totd.c
index 48d10fd1e26..01e16f23764 100644
--- a/gnucash/gnome-utils/dialog-totd.c
+++ b/gnucash/gnome-utils/dialog-totd.c
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ gnc_new_tip_number (TotdDialog *totd_dialog, gint offset)
      */
     if (tip_list[current_tip_number])
         tip_components = g_strsplit(tip_list[current_tip_number], "|", 0);
-    /* If the tip is empty, g_strisplit will return an empty list. This
+    /* If the tip is empty, g_strsplit will return an empty list. This
      * shouldn't normally happen, but make sure we don't crash just in
      * case */
     if (tip_components == NULL)
diff --git a/gnucash/gnome-utils/gnc-date-edit.c b/gnucash/gnome-utils/gnc-date-edit.c
index d0d7ba8e983..fde3aa5eeab 100644
--- a/gnucash/gnome-utils/gnc-date-edit.c
+++ b/gnucash/gnome-utils/gnc-date-edit.c
@@ -1057,7 +1057,7 @@ gnc_date_edit_get_date_internal (GNCDateEdit *gde)
 
     if (!date_was_valid)
     {
-        /* Hm... no valid date. What should we do not? As a hacky workaround we
+        /* Hm... no valid date. What should we do now? As a hacky workaround we
         revert to today's date. Alternatively we can return some value that
         signals that we don't get a valid date, but all callers of this
         function will have to check this. Alas, I'm too lazy to do this here. */
diff --git a/gnucash/gnome-utils/gnc-main-window.c b/gnucash/gnome-utils/gnc-main-window.c
index 2ffbac0522e..51890edfde8 100644
--- a/gnucash/gnome-utils/gnc-main-window.c
+++ b/gnucash/gnome-utils/gnc-main-window.c
@@ -1444,7 +1444,7 @@ gnc_main_window_quit(GncMainWindow *window)
         GList *w, *next;
 
         /* This is not a typical list iteration. There is a possibility
-         * that the window maybe removed from the active_windows list so
+         * that the window may be removed from the active_windows list so
          * we have to cache the 'next' pointer before executing any code
          * in the loop. */
         for (w = active_windows; w; w = next)
diff --git a/gnucash/gnucash.cpp b/gnucash/gnucash.cpp
index d32c21018ad..ba5116fc03e 100644
--- a/gnucash/gnucash.cpp
+++ b/gnucash/gnucash.cpp
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ Gnucash::Gnucash::start ([[maybe_unused]] int argc, [[maybe_unused]] char **argv
     }
 
     /* Now the module files are looked up, which might cause some library
-     initialization to be run, hence gtk must be initialized b*eforehand. */
+     initialization to be run, hence gtk must be initialized beforehand. */
     gnc_module_system_init();
 
     gnc_gui_init();
diff --git a/gnucash/import-export/qif-imp/assistant-qif-import.c b/gnucash/import-export/qif-imp/assistant-qif-import.c
index fb1347fd074..9231ef308b8 100644
--- a/gnucash/import-export/qif-imp/assistant-qif-import.c
+++ b/gnucash/import-export/qif-imp/assistant-qif-import.c
@@ -2119,7 +2119,7 @@ gnc_ui_qif_import_account_prepare (GtkAssistant  *assistant, gpointer user_data)
     if (wind->ask_date_format && wind->date_format)
         qif_import_reparse_dates (wind);
 
-    /* make sure there is a file selected, may of come back */
+    /* make sure there is a file selected, may have come back */
     if (wind->selected_file == SCM_BOOL_F)
     {
         GtkAssistant *assistant = GTK_ASSISTANT(wind->window);
diff --git a/libgnucash/app-utils/QuickFill.h b/libgnucash/app-utils/QuickFill.h
index 4fd125319f9..ba85097c6fd 100644
--- a/libgnucash/app-utils/QuickFill.h
+++ b/libgnucash/app-utils/QuickFill.h
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ void         gnc_quickfill_purge (QuickFill *qf);
  */
 const char * gnc_quickfill_string (QuickFill *qf);
 
-/** Return the subnode of the tree whose strings all hold 'wc' as
+/** Return the subnode of the tree whose strings all hold 'c' as
  *  the next letter.  That is, if 'qf' holds all strings starting
  *  with the letter 'a', and we ask for the letter 'b', then this
  *  routine will return the node holding all strings that start
diff --git a/libgnucash/backend/dbi/gnc-dbisqlconnection.cpp b/libgnucash/backend/dbi/gnc-dbisqlconnection.cpp
index 3eaf4d9bc2b..aabacc31331 100644
--- a/libgnucash/backend/dbi/gnc-dbisqlconnection.cpp
+++ b/libgnucash/backend/dbi/gnc-dbisqlconnection.cpp
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ GncDbiSqlConnection::quote_string (const std::string& unquoted_str)
 
 
 /** Check if the dbi connection is valid. If not attempt to re-establish it
- * Returns TRUE is there is a valid connection in the end or FALSE otherwise
+ * Returns TRUE if there is a valid connection in the end or FALSE otherwise
  */
 bool
 GncDbiSqlConnection::verify () noexcept
diff --git a/libgnucash/backend/dbi/gnc-dbisqlconnection.hpp b/libgnucash/backend/dbi/gnc-dbisqlconnection.hpp
index 7865bd216ef..a87137836ed 100644
--- a/libgnucash/backend/dbi/gnc-dbisqlconnection.hpp
+++ b/libgnucash/backend/dbi/gnc-dbisqlconnection.hpp
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ class GncDbiSqlConnection : public GncSqlConnection
         set_error(ERR_BACKEND_NO_ERR, 0, false);
     }
     /** Check if the dbi connection is valid. If not attempt to re-establish it
-     * Returns TRUE is there is a valid connection in the end or FALSE otherwise
+     * Returns TRUE if there is a valid connection in the end or FALSE otherwise
      */
     bool verify() noexcept override;
     bool retry_connection(const char* msg) noexcept override;
diff --git a/libgnucash/engine/qoflog.cpp b/libgnucash/engine/qoflog.cpp
index 993d9c208d2..58a78f4ccfc 100644
--- a/libgnucash/engine/qoflog.cpp
+++ b/libgnucash/engine/qoflog.cpp
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ qof_log_init_filename(const gchar* log_filename)
             g_assert(g_strcmp0(log_filename, "/dev/null") != 0);
 
             /* Windows prevents renaming of open files, so the next command silently fails there
-             * No problem, the filename on Winows will simply have the random characters */
+             * No problem, the filename on Windows will simply have the random characters */
             g_rename(fname, log_filename);
             fout = fdopen(fd, "w");
 #endif
diff --git a/libgnucash/engine/test/test-gnc-guid.cpp b/libgnucash/engine/test/test-gnc-guid.cpp
index 65c9f341b0e..10137f42efc 100644
--- a/libgnucash/engine/test/test-gnc-guid.cpp
+++ b/libgnucash/engine/test/test-gnc-guid.cpp
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ TEST (GncGUID, from_string)
         fail = true;
     }
     /* Currently, boost uuid string parsing is mostly very permissive, but it has some
-     * odd pet peves. See https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/12253 for more.*/
+     * odd pet peeves. See https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/12253 for more.*/
     if (BOOST_VERSION >= 106600)
         EXPECT_TRUE (fail) << "Parsing the bogus string should throw";
     else
diff --git a/libgnucash/gnc-module/gnc-module.c b/libgnucash/gnc-module/gnc-module.c
index 11465757ed6..f6ffcdf7d08 100644
--- a/libgnucash/gnc-module/gnc-module.c
+++ b/libgnucash/gnc-module/gnc-module.c
@@ -228,9 +228,9 @@ gnc_module_system_refresh(void)
 
             /* Gotcha: On MacOS, G_MODULE_SUFFIX is defined as "so",
              * but if we do not build clean libtool modules with
-             * "-module", we get dynamic libraries ending on .dylib On
-             * Windows, all modules will move to bin/, so they will be
-             * mixed with other libraries, such as gtk+. Adding a
+             * "-module", we get dynamic libraries ending in .dylib
+             * On Windows, all modules will move to bin/, so they will
+             * be mixed with other libraries, such as gtk+. Adding a
              * prefix "libgncmod" filter will prevent the module loader
              * from loading other libraries. The filter should work on
              * other platforms.