diff --git a/common/content/completion.js b/common/content/completion.js
index 5aca30e3..e54a5c85 100644
--- a/common/content/completion.js
+++ b/common/content/completion.js
@@ -905,7 +905,7 @@ const Completion = Module("completion", {
             });
 
         options.add(["wildanchor", "wia"],
-            "Regexp list defining which contexts require matches anchored to the begining of the result",
+            "Regexp list defining which contexts require matches anchored to the beginning of the result",
             "regexlist", "!/ex/(back|buffer|ext|forward|help|undo)");
 
         options.add(["wildcase", "wic"],
diff --git a/common/content/editor.js b/common/content/editor.js
index 89f8979b..5ad8e771 100644
--- a/common/content/editor.js
+++ b/common/content/editor.js
@@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ const Editor = Module("editor", {
             { arg: true, count: true });
 
         mappings.add([modes.TEXT_EDIT, modes.VISUAL],
-            ["F"], "Move to a charater on the current line before the cursor",
+            ["F"], "Move to a character on the current line before the cursor",
             function (count, arg) {
                 let pos = editor.findCharBackward(arg, count);
                 if (pos >= 0)
diff --git a/common/content/hints.js b/common/content/hints.js
index 2dfb1944..327dcfb3 100644
--- a/common/content/hints.js
+++ b/common/content/hints.js
@@ -1167,7 +1167,7 @@ const Hints = Module("hints", {
             {
                 completer: function (context) [
                     ["contains",       "The typed characters are split on whitespace. The resulting groups must all appear in the hint."],
-                    ["wordstartswith", "The typed characters are split on whitespace. The resulting groups must all match the beginings of words, in order."],
+                    ["wordstartswith", "The typed characters are split on whitespace. The resulting groups must all match the beginnings of words, in order."],
                     ["firstletters",   "Behaves like wordstartswith, but all groups much match a sequence of words."],
                     ["custom",         "Delegate to a custom function: dactyl.plugins.customHintMatcher(hintString)"],
                     ["transliterated", UTF8("When true, special latin characters are translated to their ASCII equivalents (e.g., é ⇒ e)")]
diff --git a/common/locale/en-US/index.xml b/common/locale/en-US/index.xml
index 981a3f11..d3ceee99 100644
--- a/common/locale/en-US/index.xml
+++ b/common/locale/en-US/index.xml
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ This file contains a list of all available commands, mappings and options.
     <dt><o>usermode</o></dt> <dd>Show current website with a minimal style sheet to make it easily accessible</dd>
     <dt><o>verbose</o></dt> <dd>Define which info messages are displayed</dd>
     <dt><o>visualbell</o></dt> <dd>Use visual bell instead of beeping on errors</dd>
-    <dt><o>wildanchor</o></dt> <dd>Regexp list defining which contexts require matches anchored to the begining of the result</dd>
+    <dt><o>wildanchor</o></dt> <dd>Regexp list defining which contexts require matches anchored to the beginning of the result</dd>
     <dt><o>wildcase</o></dt> <dd>Completion case matching mode</dd>
     <dt><o>wildignore</o></dt> <dd>List of file patterns to ignore when completing files</dd>
     <dt><o>wildmode</o></dt> <dd>Define how command-line completion works</dd>