diff --git a/README.asciidoc b/README.asciidoc
index afe3d3f83..3aeadb625 100644
--- a/README.asciidoc
+++ b/README.asciidoc
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Contributors, sorted by the number of commits in descending order:
 Thanks / Similiar projects
 --------------------------
 
-Many projects with a similiar goal as qutebrowser exist:
+Many projects with a similar goal as qutebrowser exist:
 
 * http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/[dwb] (C, GTK+ with WebKit1, currently
 http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2huqbc/dwb_abandoned/[unmaintained] -
diff --git a/doc/FAQ.asciidoc b/doc/FAQ.asciidoc
index ba5f094c1..acc87d4c4 100644
--- a/doc/FAQ.asciidoc
+++ b/doc/FAQ.asciidoc
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ What is qutebrowser based on?::
 +
 The concept of it is largely inspired by http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/[dwb]
 and http://www.vimperator.org/vimperator[Vimperator]. Many actions and
-keybindings are similiar to dwb.
+keybindings are similar to dwb.
 
 Why another browser?::
     It might be hard to believe, but I didn't find any browser which I was
diff --git a/qutebrowser/utils/earlyinit.py b/qutebrowser/utils/earlyinit.py
index 15e78492e..f22637871 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/utils/earlyinit.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/utils/earlyinit.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ def _missing_str(name, debian=None, arch=None, windows=None, pip=None):
         lines += windows.splitlines()
         blocks.append('<br />'.join(lines))
     lines = ["<b>For other distributions:</b>",
-             "Check your package manager for similiarly named packages or "
+             "Check your package manager for similarly named packages or "
              "install via pip."]
     blocks.append('<br />'.join(lines))
     if pip is not None:
diff --git a/qutebrowser/utils/log.py b/qutebrowser/utils/log.py
index bd2edfb3e..1141deb38 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/utils/log.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/utils/log.py
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ class RAMHandler(logging.Handler):
 
 class HTMLFormatter(logging.Formatter):
 
-    """Formatter for HTML-colored log messages, similiar to colorlog.
+    """Formatter for HTML-colored log messages, similar to colorlog.
 
     Attributes:
         _log_colors: The colors to use for logging levels.
diff --git a/qutebrowser/utils/utils.py b/qutebrowser/utils/utils.py
index c37365bd9..3d3f6b90e 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/utils/utils.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/utils/utils.py
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ class prevent_exceptions:  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
     This needs to be used for some places where PyQt segfaults on exceptions or
     silently ignores them.
 
-    We used to re-raise the exception with a single-shot QTimer in a similiar
+    We used to re-raise the exception with a single-shot QTimer in a similar
     case, but that lead to a strange proble with a KeyError with some random
     jinja template stuff as content. For now, we only log it, so it doesn't
     pass 100% silently.