diff --git a/faiss/impl/AuxIndexStructures.cpp b/faiss/impl/AuxIndexStructures.cpp
index b4c9fba17..0feb2ccaa 100644
--- a/faiss/impl/AuxIndexStructures.cpp
+++ b/faiss/impl/AuxIndexStructures.cpp
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ RangeSearchResult::RangeSearchResult(size_t nq, bool alloc_lims) : nq(nq) {
 /// for each query
 void RangeSearchResult::do_allocation() {
     // works only if all the partial results are aggregated
-    // simulatenously
+    // simultaneously
     FAISS_THROW_IF_NOT(labels == nullptr && distances == nullptr);
     size_t ofs = 0;
     for (int i = 0; i < nq; i++) {
diff --git a/faiss/impl/HNSW.h b/faiss/impl/HNSW.h
index 5a3b7f93f..df34e4011 100644
--- a/faiss/impl/HNSW.h
+++ b/faiss/impl/HNSW.h
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ struct HNSW {
         int count_below(float thresh);
     };
 
-    /// to sort pairs of (id, distance) from nearest to fathest or the reverse
+    /// to sort pairs of (id, distance) from nearest to farthest or the reverse
     struct NodeDistCloser {
         float d;
         int id;
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ struct HNSW {
     /// nb of neighbors for this level
     int nb_neighbors(int layer_no) const;
 
-    /// cumumlative nb up to (and excluding) this level
+    /// cumulative nb up to (and excluding) this level
     int cum_nb_neighbors(int layer_no) const;
 
     /// range of entries in the neighbors table of vertex no at layer_no
diff --git a/faiss/impl/IDSelector.cpp b/faiss/impl/IDSelector.cpp
index 1f33ea33f..d82562b34 100644
--- a/faiss/impl/IDSelector.cpp
+++ b/faiss/impl/IDSelector.cpp
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ void IDSelectorRange::find_sorted_ids_bounds(
         *jmin_out = *jmax_out = 0;
         return;
     }
-    // bissection to find imin
+    // bisection to find imin
     if (ids[0] >= imin) {
         *jmin_out = 0;
     } else {
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ void IDSelectorRange::find_sorted_ids_bounds(
         }
         *jmin_out = j1;
     }
-    // bissection to find imax
+    // bisection to find imax
     if (*jmin_out == list_size || ids[*jmin_out] >= imax) {
         *jmax_out = *jmin_out;
     } else {
diff --git a/faiss/impl/LocalSearchQuantizer.h b/faiss/impl/LocalSearchQuantizer.h
index 39d7d6cc6..5a7a8af28 100644
--- a/faiss/impl/LocalSearchQuantizer.h
+++ b/faiss/impl/LocalSearchQuantizer.h
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ struct LocalSearchQuantizer : AdditiveQuantizer {
     /** Add some perturbation to codebooks
      *
      * @param T         temperature of simulated annealing
-     * @param stddev    standard derivations of each dimension in training data
+     * @param stddev    standard deviations of each dimension in training data
      */
     void perturb_codebooks(
             float T,
diff --git a/faiss/impl/ProductQuantizer.h b/faiss/impl/ProductQuantizer.h
index 57c005cf6..07d11c82b 100644
--- a/faiss/impl/ProductQuantizer.h
+++ b/faiss/impl/ProductQuantizer.h
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ struct ProductQuantizer : Quantizer {
     /// Symmetric Distance Table
     std::vector<float> sdc_table;
 
-    // intitialize the SDC table from the centroids
+    // initialize the SDC table from the centroids
     void compute_sdc_table();
 
     void search_sdc(
diff --git a/faiss/impl/ResidualQuantizer.h b/faiss/impl/ResidualQuantizer.h
index 572232fda..6a70b822e 100644
--- a/faiss/impl/ResidualQuantizer.h
+++ b/faiss/impl/ResidualQuantizer.h
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ struct ResidualQuantizer : AdditiveQuantizer {
      *  first element of the beam (faster but less accurate) */
     static const int Train_top_beam = 1024;
 
-    /** set this bit to *not* autmatically compute the codebook tables
+    /** set this bit to *not* automatically compute the codebook tables
      * after training */
     static const int Skip_codebook_tables = 2048;
 
diff --git a/faiss/impl/ScalarQuantizer.h b/faiss/impl/ScalarQuantizer.h
index c1f4f98f6..93b856dcc 100644
--- a/faiss/impl/ScalarQuantizer.h
+++ b/faiss/impl/ScalarQuantizer.h
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ struct ScalarQuantizer : Quantizer {
     QuantizerType qtype = QT_8bit;
 
     /** The uniform encoder can estimate the range of representable
-     * values of the unform encoder using different statistics. Here
+     * values of the uniform encoder using different statistics. Here
      * rs = rangestat_arg */
 
     // rangestat_arg.