diff --git a/docs/site/index.html b/docs/site/index.html
index 5fef129b..c6b8c764 100644
--- a/docs/site/index.html
+++ b/docs/site/index.html
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
           <li><a href="https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/projects/4">Forum</a></li>
           <li><a href="https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/projects/3">Mailing list</a>
         </ul>
-        <p>Project maintainance guidelines are avaible on the <a href="https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/wiki/Project-management">wiki</a></p>
+        <p>Project maintenance guidelines are avaible on the <a href="https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/wiki/Project-management">wiki</a></p>
         
         <h1>Irc</h1>
         <p>The Gunicorn channel is on the <a href="http://freenode.net/">Freenode</a> IRC
diff --git a/docs/sitemap_gen.py b/docs/sitemap_gen.py
index 282ac1da..f1596b70 100755
--- a/docs/sitemap_gen.py
+++ b/docs/sitemap_gen.py
@@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ class InputDirectory:
 
   def __init__(self, attributes, base_url):
     self._path         = None               # The directory
-    self._url          = None               # The URL equivelant
+    self._url          = None               # The URL equivalent
     self._default_file = None
 
     if not ValidateAttributes('DIRECTORY', attributes, ('path', 'url',
diff --git a/docs/source/community.rst b/docs/source/community.rst
index e7959117..249d82c5 100644
--- a/docs/source/community.rst
+++ b/docs/source/community.rst
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ for 3 different purposes:
   * `Mailing list <https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/projects/3>`_ : Discussion of Gunicorn development, new features
     and project management.  
 
-Project maintainance guidelines are avaible on the `wiki <https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/wiki/Project-management>`_
+Project maintenance guidelines are avaible on the `wiki <https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/wiki/Project-management>`_
 .
 
 IRC
diff --git a/gunicorn/util.py b/gunicorn/util.py
index d6d99fc1..84f69377 100644
--- a/gunicorn/util.py
+++ b/gunicorn/util.py
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ if sys.platform.startswith("win"):
         # required when contention occurs.
         timeout = 0.001
         while timeout < 1.0:
-            # Note we are only testing for the existance of the file(s) in
+            # Note we are only testing for the existence of the file(s) in
             # the contents of the directory regardless of any security or
             # access rights.  If we have made it this far, we have sufficient
             # permissions to do that much using Python's equivalent of the
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ def daemonize(enable_stdio_inheritance=False):
         os.umask(0o22)
 
         # In both the following any file descriptors above stdin
-        # stdout and stderr are left untouched. The inheritence
+        # stdout and stderr are left untouched. The inheritance
         # option simply allows one to have output go to a file
         # specified by way of shell redirection when not wanting
         # to use --error-log option.