doc: Fix some typos

5 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml
index 9851eb08afb5..d5d8140e0764 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Thus, if something went wrong, you can get status info using
 
 </para>
 
-<para>If the container has started succesfully, you can log in as
+<para>If the container has started successfully, you can log in as
 root using the <command>root-login</command> operation:
 
 <screen>
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/development/option-declarations.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/development/option-declarations.xml
index e322b6458a1a..d20c2d1aa2e2 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/development/option-declarations.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/development/option-declarations.xml
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ options = {
   </itemizedlist>
   </para>
 
-  <para>Both approachs have problems.</para>
+  <para>Both approaches have problems.</para>
 
   <para>Making backends independent can quickly become hard to manage. For
     display managers, there can be only one enabled at a time, but the type
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/development/option-types.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/development/option-types.xml
index e928c5570874..441393c98276 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/development/option-types.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/development/option-types.xml
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ code before creating a new type.</para>
     <listitem><para>For composed types that can take a submodule as type 
         parameter, this function can be used to substitute the parameter of a 
         submodule type. It takes a module as parameter and return the type with 
-        the submodule options substituted. It is usally defined as a type 
+        the submodule options substituted. It is usually defined as a type 
         function call with a recursive call to 
         <literal>substSubModules</literal>, e.g for a type 
         <literal>composedType</literal> that take an <literal>elemtype</literal> 
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1509.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1509.xml
index e0271485c361..967fbcf869db 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1509.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1509.xml
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ nix-env -f &quot;&lt;nixpkgs&gt;&quot; -iA haskellPackages.pandoc
 
 <listitem>
   <para>
-    Python 2.6 has been marked as broken (as it no longer recieves
+    Python 2.6 has been marked as broken (as it no longer receives
     security updates from upstream).
   </para>
 </listitem>
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1603.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1603.xml
index f460e00e836e..7279dd058270 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1603.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1603.xml
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ services.syncthing = {
   <listitem>
     <para>
       <literal>networking.firewall.allowPing</literal> is now enabled by
-      default. Users are encourarged to configure an approiate rate limit for
+      default. Users are encouraged to configure an appropriate rate limit for
       their machines using the Kernel interface at
       <filename>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ratelimit</filename> and
       <filename>/proc/sys/net/ipv6/icmp/ratelimit</filename> or using the