diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/intepreter.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/intepreter.nix
index 70a0914b70a9..be869c2a4e3f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/intepreter.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/intepreter.nix
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
 
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://www.perl.org/";
-    description = "The standard implementation of the Perl 5 programmming language";
+    description = "The standard implementation of the Perl 5 programming language";
     license = licenses.artistic1;
     maintainers = [ maintainers.eelco ];
     platforms = platforms.all;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/cligj/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/cligj/default.nix
index b71f1945e084..521a7b31ef36 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/cligj/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/cligj/default.nix
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   '';
 
   meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Click params for commmand line interfaces to GeoJSON";
+    description = "Click params for command line interfaces to GeoJSON";
     homepage = "https://github.com/mapbox/cligj";
     license = licenses.bsd3;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ knedlsepp ];
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/unbound/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/unbound/default.nix
index 7e447b4a9be6..b6ce17a80cca 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/unbound/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/unbound/default.nix
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 , nixosTests
   #
   # By default unbound will not be built with systemd support. Unbound is a very
-  # commmon dependency. The transitive dependency closure of systemd also
+  # common dependency. The transitive dependency closure of systemd also
   # contains unbound.
   # Since most (all?) (lib)unbound users outside of the unbound daemon usage do
   # not need the systemd integration it is likely best to just default to no