diff --git a/doc/source/command-options.rst b/doc/source/command-options.rst
index edafb15322..458c56bb19 100644
--- a/doc/source/command-options.rst
+++ b/doc/source/command-options.rst
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Boolean Options
 
 Boolean options for any command that sets a resource state, such as 'enabled'
 or 'public', shall always have both positive and negative options defined.
-The names of those options shall either be a naturally occuring pair of
+The names of those options shall either be a naturally occurring pair of
 words (in English) or a positive option and a negative option with `no-`
 prepended (such as in the traditional GNU option usage) like `--share` and
 `--no-share`.
diff --git a/openstackclient/api/utils.py b/openstackclient/api/utils.py
index b7ff7f23b6..fa759cd349 100644
--- a/openstackclient/api/utils.py
+++ b/openstackclient/api/utils.py
@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@ def simple_filter(
         be changed if any filtering occurs.
     :param string attr:
         The name of the attribute to filter.  If attr does not exist no
-        match will succeed and no rows will be retrurned.  If attr is
+        match will succeed and no rows will be returned.  If attr is
         None no filtering will be performed and all rows will be returned.
     :param sring value:
         The value to filter.  None is considered to be a 'no filter' value.
-        '' matches agains a Python empty string.
+        '' matches against a Python empty string.
     :param string property_field:
         The name of the data field containing a property dict to filter.
         If property_field is None, attr is a field name. If property_field