diff --git a/doc/source/zmq_driver.rst b/doc/source/zmq_driver.rst
index 099ed342f..a1de898c6 100644
--- a/doc/source/zmq_driver.rst
+++ b/doc/source/zmq_driver.rst
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ The way that deploy the receiver process is to run it under a new user 'oslo'
 and give all openstack daemons access via group membership of 'oslo' - this
 supports using /var/run/openstack as a shared IPC directory for all openstack
 processes, allowing different services to be hosted on the same server, served
-by a single oslo-messaging-zmq-reciever process.
+by a single oslo-messaging-zmq-receiver process.
 
 The IPC runtime directory, 'rpc_zmq_ipc_dir', can be set in [DEFAULT] section.
 
diff --git a/oslo_messaging/_drivers/protocols/amqp/controller.py b/oslo_messaging/_drivers/protocols/amqp/controller.py
index 8d949ed2e..6c61663af 100644
--- a/oslo_messaging/_drivers/protocols/amqp/controller.py
+++ b/oslo_messaging/_drivers/protocols/amqp/controller.py
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ class Controller(pyngus.ConnectionEventHandler):
             conn_props["x-ssl-ca-file"] = self.ssl_ca_file
         if self.ssl_cert_file:
             # assume this connection is for a server.  If client authentication
-            # support is developed, we'll need an explict flag (server or
+            # support is developed, we'll need an explicit flag (server or
             # client)
             conn_props["x-ssl-server"] = True
             conn_props["x-ssl-identity"] = (self.ssl_cert_file,