diff --git a/oslo_messaging/_drivers/impl_rabbit.py b/oslo_messaging/_drivers/impl_rabbit.py
index faa49aa53..5939d0682 100644
--- a/oslo_messaging/_drivers/impl_rabbit.py
+++ b/oslo_messaging/_drivers/impl_rabbit.py
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ class ConnectionLock(DummyConnectionLock):
     starvation when the driver sends a lot of messages.
 
     So when lock.heartbeat_acquire() is called next time the lock
-    is released(), the caller unconditionnaly acquires
+    is released(), the caller unconditionally acquires
     the lock, even someone else have asked for the lock before it.
     """
 
@@ -916,7 +916,7 @@ class Connection(object):
                         # NOTE(sileht): We need to drain event to receive
                         # heartbeat from the broker but don't hold the
                         # connection too much times. In amqpdriver a connection
-                        # is used exclusivly for read or for write, so we have
+                        # is used exclusively for read or for write, so we have
                         # to do this for connection used for write drain_events
                         # already do that for other connection
                         try:
diff --git a/oslo_messaging/_drivers/pika_driver/pika_commons.py b/oslo_messaging/_drivers/pika_driver/pika_commons.py
index a076f40ad..df004a8f9 100644
--- a/oslo_messaging/_drivers/pika_driver/pika_commons.py
+++ b/oslo_messaging/_drivers/pika_driver/pika_commons.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ def is_eventlet_monkey_patched(module):
     """Determines safely is eventlet patching for module enabled or not
 
     :param module: String, module name
-    :return Bool, True if module is pathed, False otherwise
+    :return Bool, True if module is patched, False otherwise
     """
 
     if 'eventlet.patcher' not in sys.modules:
diff --git a/oslo_messaging/_drivers/pika_driver/pika_listener.py b/oslo_messaging/_drivers/pika_driver/pika_listener.py
index a58e54236..a2dd40d35 100644
--- a/oslo_messaging/_drivers/pika_driver/pika_listener.py
+++ b/oslo_messaging/_drivers/pika_driver/pika_listener.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ class RpcReplyPikaListener(object):
 
         :param expiration_time: Float, expiration time in seconds
             (like time.time()),
-        :return: String, queue name which hould be used for reply sending
+        :return: String, queue name which should be used for reply sending
         """
         if self._reply_consumer_initialized:
             return self._reply_queue
diff --git a/oslo_messaging/_drivers/zmq_driver/zmq_poller.py b/oslo_messaging/_drivers/zmq_driver/zmq_poller.py
index cfe249574..dccdc0cfa 100644
--- a/oslo_messaging/_drivers/zmq_driver/zmq_poller.py
+++ b/oslo_messaging/_drivers/zmq_driver/zmq_poller.py
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ class ZmqPoller(object):
         """Resume with polling
 
         Some implementations of poller may provide hold polling before reply
-        This method is intended to excplicitly resume polling aftewards.
+        This method is intended to explicitly resume polling afterwards.
         """