diff --git a/doc/src/advanced.rst b/doc/src/advanced.rst
index f5ef02a..9af47d6 100644
--- a/doc/src/advanced.rst
+++ b/doc/src/advanced.rst
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Consider the following example test module:
 
 In principle, this example works the very same way as the basic
 example for :ref:`usage-parametrized`.  The only difference is that
-the lists of paramters are dynamically compiled beforehand.  The test
+the lists of parameters are dynamically compiled beforehand.  The test
 for child `l` deliberately fails, just to show the effect.  As a
 consequence, the test for its parent `d` will be skipped.
 
diff --git a/doc/src/scope.rst b/doc/src/scope.rst
index 1e78a29..5d71802 100644
--- a/doc/src/scope.rst
+++ b/doc/src/scope.rst
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ or `'class'`.
     versions, all dependencies were implicitly in module scope.
 
 
-Explicitely specifying the scope
---------------------------------
+Explicitly specifying the scope
+-------------------------------
 
 The default value for the `scope` argument is `'module'`.  Thus, the
 very first example from Section :ref:`usage-basic` could also be
diff --git a/doc/src/usage.rst b/doc/src/usage.rst
index be97ef2..ddbb03e 100644
--- a/doc/src/usage.rst
+++ b/doc/src/usage.rst
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ test, we will get the following result:
 .. literalinclude:: ../examples/basic.out
 
 The first test has deliberately been set to fail to illustrate the
-effect.  We will get the following resuts:
+effect.  We will get the following results:
 
 `test_a`
   deliberately fails.
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ see Section :ref:`names` for details.  In some cases, it's not easy to
 predict the names of the node ids.  For this reason, the name of the
 tests can be overridden by an explicit `name` argument to the marker.
 The names must be unique.  The following example works exactly as the
-last one, only the test names are explicitely set:
+last one, only the test names are explicitly set:
 
 .. literalinclude:: ../examples/named.py
 
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Marking dependencies at runtime
 -------------------------------
 
 Sometimes, dependencies of test instances are too complicated to be
-formulated explicitely beforehand using the
+formulated explicitly beforehand using the
 :func:`pytest.mark.dependency` marker.  It may be easier to compile
 the list of dependencies of a test at run time.  In such cases, the
 function :func:`pytest_dependency.depends` comes handy.  Consider the
diff --git a/tests/test_03_class.py b/tests/test_03_class.py
index 168b634..64bdb6d 100644
--- a/tests/test_03_class.py
+++ b/tests/test_03_class.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ def test_e(self):
 
 def test_class_simple_named(ctestdir):
     """Mostly the same as test_class_simple(), but name the test methods
-    now explicitely.
+    now explicitly.
     """
     ctestdir.makepyfile("""
         import pytest
diff --git a/tests/test_03_scope.py b/tests/test_03_scope.py
index 58aad89..17efe82 100644
--- a/tests/test_03_scope.py
+++ b/tests/test_03_scope.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 
 def test_scope_module(ctestdir):
-    """One single module, module scope is explicitely set in the
+    """One single module, module scope is explicitly set in the
     pytest.mark.dependency() marker.
     """
     ctestdir.makepyfile("""
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ def test_o(self):
     """)
 
 def test_scope_named(ctestdir):
-    """Explicitely named tests are always referenced by that name,
+    """Explicitly named tests are always referenced by that name,
     regardless of the scope.
     """
     ctestdir.makepyfile("""
diff --git a/tests/test_09_examples_scope.py b/tests/test_09_examples_scope.py
index 98a2400..7975e5a 100644
--- a/tests/test_09_examples_scope.py
+++ b/tests/test_09_examples_scope.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 
 def test_scope_module(ctestdir):
-    """Explicitely specifying the scope
+    """Explicitly specifying the scope
     """
     with get_example("scope_module.py").open("rt") as f:
         ctestdir.makepyfile(f.read())