diff --git a/chapters/features/modules.md b/chapters/features/modules.md
index dda06ad..f217f2c 100644
--- a/chapters/features/modules.md
+++ b/chapters/features/modules.md
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ There are lots of options you can add, like `COMPILE_DEFINITIONS`. In CMake 3.8+
 
 ## «module:FeatureSummary»
 
-This is a fairly useful but rather odd module. It allows you to print out a list of packages what were searched for, as well as any options you explicity mark. It's partially but not completely tied into «command:`find_package`». You first include the module, as always:
+This is a fairly useful but rather odd module. It allows you to print out a list of packages what were searched for, as well as any options you explicitly mark. It's partially but not completely tied into «command:`find_package`». You first include the module, as always:
 
 ```cmake
 include(FeatureSummary)
diff --git a/chapters/intro/dodonot.md b/chapters/intro/dodonot.md
index 1c4bb5f..d6a6413 100644
--- a/chapters/intro/dodonot.md
+++ b/chapters/intro/dodonot.md
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ at least as new as your compiler.
 * 3.13: Debian stable.
 * 3.16: Ubuntu 20.04.
 * 3.19: First to support Apple Silicon.
-* latest: pip/conda-forge/homebew/chocolaty, ect.
+* latest: pip/conda-forge/homebew/chocolaty, etc.
 
 ### What minimum to choose - Features:
 
diff --git a/chapters/intro/newcmake.md b/chapters/intro/newcmake.md
index b297ebc..ae6e359 100644
--- a/chapters/intro/newcmake.md
+++ b/chapters/intro/newcmake.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # What's new in in CMake
 
 
-This is an abbreviated version of the CMake changlog with just the highlights for authors. Names for each release are arbitrarily picked by the author.
+This is an abbreviated version of the CMake changelog with just the highlights for authors. Names for each release are arbitrarily picked by the author.
 
 ## [CMake 3.0][] : Interface libraries
 
diff --git a/chapters/intro/running.md b/chapters/intro/running.md
index ea66f56..449cecf 100644
--- a/chapters/intro/running.md
+++ b/chapters/intro/running.md
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ You can build with a variety of tools; `make` is usually the default. To see all
 
 And you can pick a tool with `-G"My Tool"` (quotes only needed if spaces are in the tool name). You should pick a tool on your first CMake call in a directory, just like the compiler. Feel free to have several build directories, like `build/` and `buildXcode`.
 You can set the environment variable `CMAKE_GENERATOR` to control the default generator (CMake 3.15+).
-Note that makefiles will only run in parallel if you explicilty pass a number of threads, such as `make -j2`, while Ninja will automatically run in parallel. You can directly pass a parallelization option such as `-j2` to the `cmake --build .` command in recent versions of CMake.
+Note that makefiles will only run in parallel if you explicitly pass a number of threads, such as `make -j2`, while Ninja will automatically run in parallel. You can directly pass a parallelization option such as `-j2` to the `cmake --build .` command in recent versions of CMake.
 
 ## Setting options
 
diff --git a/chapters/testing/googletest.md b/chapters/testing/googletest.md
index 730366e..dfc1f45 100644
--- a/chapters/testing/googletest.md
+++ b/chapters/testing/googletest.md
@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ Then, to add a test, I'd recommend the following macro:
 
 ```cmake
 macro(package_add_test TESTNAME)
-    # create an exectuable in which the tests will be stored
+    # create an executable in which the tests will be stored
     add_executable(${TESTNAME} ${ARGN})
-    # link the Google test infrastructure, mocking library, and a default main fuction to
+    # link the Google test infrastructure, mocking library, and a default main function to
     # the test executable.  Remove g_test_main if writing your own main function.
     target_link_libraries(${TESTNAME} gtest gmock gtest_main)
     # gtest_discover_tests replaces gtest_add_tests,
diff --git a/examples/extended-project/docs/mainpage.md b/examples/extended-project/docs/mainpage.md
index bf7f65e..01666af 100644
--- a/examples/extended-project/docs/mainpage.md
+++ b/examples/extended-project/docs/mainpage.md
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ It is good documentation because:
 
 1. It exists.
 2. I wrote it.
-3. Everthing is documented (pretty easy since there's only one function)
+3. Everything is documented (pretty easy since there's only one function)
 
 The single provided function is `::accumulate_vector`.