diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 36045e60..08725dd3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -8139,7 +8139,7 @@ Wed Dec 10 11:16:29 CET 2003 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 Tue Dec  9 23:50:23 CET 2003 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
-	* entities.c: fixed an XML entites content serialization 
+	* entities.c: fixed an XML entities content serialization
 	  potentially triggered by XInclude, see #126817
 
 Tue Dec  9 16:12:50 CET 2003 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
diff --git a/include/libxml/entities.h b/include/libxml/entities.h
index 1e911897..0ee56df0 100644
--- a/include/libxml/entities.h
+++ b/include/libxml/entities.h
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ struct _xmlEntity {
     const xmlChar           *URI;	/* the full URI as computed */
     int                    owner;	/* does the entity own the childrens */
     int			 checked;	/* was the entity content checked */
-					/* this is also used to count entites
+					/* this is also used to count entities
 					 * references done from that entity
 					 * and if it contains '<' */
 };
diff --git a/parser.c b/parser.c
index 4739add7..d9844be5 100644
--- a/parser.c
+++ b/parser.c
@@ -7757,7 +7757,7 @@ xmlParseStringEntityRef(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt, const xmlChar ** str) {
 
 
     /*
-     * Predefined entites override any extra definition
+     * Predefined entities override any extra definition
      */
     if ((ctxt->options & XML_PARSE_OLDSAX) == 0) {
         ent = xmlGetPredefinedEntity(name);
diff --git a/xmllint.c b/xmllint.c
index ebd36ab0..7e79070d 100644
--- a/xmllint.c
+++ b/xmllint.c
@@ -3003,7 +3003,7 @@ static void usage(const char *name) {
     printf("\t--noenc : ignore any encoding specified inside the document\n");
     printf("\t--noout : don't output the result tree\n");
     printf("\t--path 'paths': provide a set of paths for resources\n");
-    printf("\t--load-trace : print trace of all external entites loaded\n");
+    printf("\t--load-trace : print trace of all external entities loaded\n");
     printf("\t--nonet : refuse to fetch DTDs or entities over network\n");
     printf("\t--nocompact : do not generate compact text nodes\n");
     printf("\t--htmlout : output results as HTML\n");