diff --git a/Changelog.rst b/Changelog.rst
index 27b6cb19..82b00b85 100644
--- a/Changelog.rst
+++ b/Changelog.rst
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ compatible with 0.90 elasticsearch.
    backwards compatibility, to be removed in future versions)
  * Added ``helpers.streaming_bulk`` to consume an iterator and yield results per
    operation
- * ``helpers.bulk`` and ``helpers.streaming_bulk`` are no longer limitted to just
+ * ``helpers.bulk`` and ``helpers.streaming_bulk`` are no longer limited to just
    index operations.
  * unicode body (for ``incices.analyze`` for example) is now handled correctly
  * changed ``perform_request`` on ``Connection`` classes to return headers as well.
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ compatible with 0.90 elasticsearch.
 0.4.2 (2013-10-08)
 ------------------
  
- * ``ignore`` param acceted by all APIs
+ * ``ignore`` param accepted by all APIs
  * Fixes to ``helpers.bulk_index``
 
 0.4.1 (2013-09-24)
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index 098ee87f..aefd55d7 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Example Usage
 Features
 --------
 
-This client was designed as very thin wrapper around Elasticseach's REST API to
+This client was designed as very thin wrapper around Elasticsearch's REST API to
 allow for maximum flexibility. This means that there are no opinions in this
 client; it also means that some of the APIs are a little cumbersome to use from
 Python. We have created some :ref:`helpers` to help with this issue as well as
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ turning on :ref:`sniffing` to make sure the client is up to date on the cluster
 location.
 
 By default we allow ``urllib3`` to open up to 10 connections to each node, if
-your application calls for more paralelism, use the ``maxsize`` parameter to
+your application calls for more parallelism, use the ``maxsize`` parameter to
 raise the limit::
 
     # allow up to 25 connections to each node
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ is used by the client to log standard activity, depending on the log level.
 of ``curl`` commands using pretty-printed json that can then be executed from
 command line. Because it is designed to be shared (for example to demonstrate
 an issue) it also just uses ``localhost:9200`` as the address instead of the
-actuall address of the host. If the trace logger has not been configured
+actual address of the host. If the trace logger has not been configured
 already it is set to `propagate=False` so it needs to be activated separately.
 
 .. _logging library: http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/logging.html