diff --git a/doc/source/upgrade.rst b/doc/source/upgrade.rst
index 4947ededa7e9..cdb674ff5783 100644
--- a/doc/source/upgrade.rst
+++ b/doc/source/upgrade.rst
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ Online data migrations occur in two places:
    new format
 #. Background online migrations that are performed using
    ``nova-manage`` to complete transformations that will not occur
-   incidentially due to normal runtime activity.
+   incidentally due to normal runtime activity.
 
 An example of online data migrations are the flavor migrations done as part
 of Nova object version 1.18. This included a transient migration of flavor
diff --git a/nova/conf/libvirt.py b/nova/conf/libvirt.py
index 498b6f700b57..a3ac02724a6a 100644
--- a/nova/conf/libvirt.py
+++ b/nova/conf/libvirt.py
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ Related options:
                help="""
 Schema used for live migration.
 
-Override the default libvirt live migration scheme (which is dependant on
+Override the default libvirt live migration scheme (which is dependent on
 virt_type). If this option is set to None, nova will automatically choose a
 sensible default based on the hypervisor. It is not recommended that you change
 this unless you are very sure that hypervisor supports a particular scheme.