diff --git a/src/common/cstr.h b/src/common/cstr.h
index 20813895..be52eb3d 100644
--- a/src/common/cstr.h
+++ b/src/common/cstr.h
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ DEF_CSTR(dj_keyipath, "ipath");
 DEF_CSTR(dj_keyfn, "filename");
 DEF_CSTR(dj_keyauthor, "author");
 DEF_CSTR(dj_keymd, "modificationdate");
-// charset and mimetype are explicitely blocked from going into the doc meta
+// charset and mimetype are explicitly blocked from going into the doc meta
 DEF_CSTR(dj_keycharset, "charset");
 DEF_CSTR(dj_keymt, "mimetype");
 
diff --git a/src/common/unacpp.cpp b/src/common/unacpp.cpp
index 45b08112..f161e561 100644
--- a/src/common/unacpp.cpp
+++ b/src/common/unacpp.cpp
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ bool unaciscapital(const string& in)
 // sharp s folds to ss but lowercases to itself, and greek final sigma
 // folds to sigma. So an input containing one of these characters
 // would wrongly detected as containing upper case. We now handle a
-// few special cases explicitely, by folding them before performing
+// few special cases explicitly, by folding them before performing
 // the lowercasing. There are actually quite a few other cases of
 // lowercase being transformed by casefolding, check Unicode
 // CaseFolding.txt for occurrences of SMALL. One more step towards
diff --git a/src/configure.ac b/src/configure.ac
index 255a6d3c..09bbb880 100644
--- a/src/configure.ac
+++ b/src/configure.ac
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ fi
 LIBXAPIAN=`$XAPIAN_CONFIG --libs`
 # The --static thing fails with older Xapians. Happily enough they don't
 # need it either (because there are no needed libraries (no uuid and we
-# deal explicitely with libz)
+# deal explicitly with libz)
 LIBXAPIANSTATICEXTRA=`$XAPIAN_CONFIG --static --libs 2> /dev/null`
 # Workaround for problem in xapian-config in some versions: wrongly lists
 # libstdc++.la in the lib list
diff --git a/src/doc/man/recoll.conf.5 b/src/doc/man/recoll.conf.5
index fcc2068b..ec45e1d0 100644
--- a/src/doc/man/recoll.conf.5
+++ b/src/doc/man/recoll.conf.5
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ embedded spaces can be quoted with double-quotes.
 Space-separated list of files or
 directories to recursively index. Default to ~ (indexes
 $HOME). You can use symbolic links in the list, they will be followed,
-independantly of the value of the followLinks variable.
+independently of the value of the followLinks variable.
 .TP
 .BI "monitordirs = "string
 Space-separated list of files or directories to monitor for
@@ -117,12 +117,12 @@ filesystem paths. Must be defined at the top level of the configuration
 file, not in a subsection. Can contain files and directories. The database and
 configuration directories will automatically be added. The expressions
 are matched using 'fnmatch(3)' with the FNM_PATHNAME flag set by
-default. This means that '/' characters must be matched explicitely. You
+default. This means that '/' characters must be matched explicitly. You
 can set 'skippedPathsFnmPathname' to 0 to disable the use of FNM_PATHNAME
 (meaning that '/*/dir3' will match '/dir1/dir2/dir3'). The default value
 contains the usual mount point for removable media to remind you that it
 is a bad idea to have Recoll work on these (esp. with the monitor: media
-gets indexed on mount, all data gets erased on unmount). Explicitely
+gets indexed on mount, all data gets erased on unmount). Explicitly
 adding '/media/xxx' to the 'topdirs' variable will override
 this.
 .TP
diff --git a/src/index/indexer.cpp b/src/index/indexer.cpp
index edb25ae0..23b57929 100644
--- a/src/index/indexer.cpp
+++ b/src/index/indexer.cpp
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ ConfIndexer::~ConfIndexer()
 
 // Determine if this is likely the first time that the user runs
 // indexing.  We don't look at the xapiandb as this may have been
-// explicitely removed for valid reasons, but at the indexing status
+// explicitly removed for valid reasons, but at the indexing status
 // file, which should be unexistant-or-empty only before any indexing
 // has ever run
 bool ConfIndexer::runFirstIndexing()
diff --git a/src/index/recollindex.cpp b/src/index/recollindex.cpp
index 97563250..c577594b 100644
--- a/src/index/recollindex.cpp
+++ b/src/index/recollindex.cpp
@@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	    LOGINFO("recollindex: reexecuting with -n after initial full "
                     "pass\n");
 	    // Note that -n will be inside the reexec when we come
-	    // back, but the monitor will explicitely strip it before
+	    // back, but the monitor will explicitly strip it before
 	    // starting a config change exec to ensure that we do a
 	    // purging pass in this latter case (full restart).
 	    o_reexec->reexec();
diff --git a/src/internfile/myhtmlparse.cpp b/src/internfile/myhtmlparse.cpp
index b8c22b8e..d9fc0c74 100644
--- a/src/internfile/myhtmlparse.cpp
+++ b/src/internfile/myhtmlparse.cpp
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ void MyHtmlParser::decode_entities(string &s)
 }
 
 // Compress whitespace and suppress newlines
-// Note that we independantly add some newlines to the output text in the
+// Note that we independently add some newlines to the output text in the
 // tag processing code. Like this, the preview looks a bit more like what a
 // browser would display.
 // We keep whitespace inside <pre> tags
diff --git a/src/qtgui/uiprefs.ui b/src/qtgui/uiprefs.ui
index 5a103701..dee854df 100644
--- a/src/qtgui/uiprefs.ui
+++ b/src/qtgui/uiprefs.ui
@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@
           <item>
            <widget class="QCheckBox" name="snipwByPageCB">
             <property name="text">
-             <string>Sort snippets by page number (default: by weigth).</string>
+             <string>Sort snippets by page number (default: by weight).</string>
             </property>
             <property name="checked">
              <bool>false</bool>
diff --git a/src/utils/execmd.h b/src/utils/execmd.h
index 92fd9f0f..17cb66a9 100644
--- a/src/utils/execmd.h
+++ b/src/utils/execmd.h
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ private:
  *  - Other program state: application-dependant. Any external cleanup
  *    (temp files etc.) must be performed by the application. ReExec()
  *    duplicates the atexit() function to make this easier, but the
- *    ReExec().atexit() calls must be done explicitely, this is not automatic
+ *    ReExec().atexit() calls must be done explicitly, this is not automatic
  *
  * In short, this is usable in reasonably controlled situations and if there
  * are no security issues involved, but this does not perform miracles.
diff --git a/src/utils/fstreewalk.h b/src/utils/fstreewalk.h
index 0727d39c..35fa7172 100644
--- a/src/utils/fstreewalk.h
+++ b/src/utils/fstreewalk.h
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ class FsTreeWalker {
     /** Set the ignored paths list */
     bool setSkippedPaths(const vector<string> &patterns);
 
-    /** Test if path/name should be skipped. This can be used independantly of
+    /** Test if path/name should be skipped. This can be used independently of
       * an actual tree walk */
     bool inSkippedPaths(const string& path, bool ckparents = false);
     bool inSkippedNames(const string& name);
diff --git a/src/windows/mkinstdir.sh b/src/windows/mkinstdir.sh
index 3a1383ba..e577e549 100644
--- a/src/windows/mkinstdir.sh
+++ b/src/windows/mkinstdir.sh
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ copyqt()
     export PATH
     $QTBIN/windeployqt recoll.exe
     # Apparently because the webkit part was grafted "by hand" on the
-    # Qt set, we need to copy some dll explicitely
+    # Qt set, we need to copy some dll explicitly
     addlibs="Qt5Core.dll Qt5Multimedia.dll \
 Qt5MultimediaWidgets.dll Qt5Network.dll Qt5OpenGL.dll \
 Qt5Positioning.dll Qt5PrintSupport.dll Qt5Sensors.dll \