diff --git a/docs/tracker-query.1 b/docs/tracker-query.1
index 9cd5c97..16a811f 100644
--- a/docs/tracker-query.1
+++ b/docs/tracker-query.1
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ Show a brief help message.
 
 .TP
 \-s, --service=ServiceName
-Search for files from a specific service. ServiceName has to be one of Documents,
-Emails, Attachments, Music, Images, Videos, Text or Development. For more inforation
-on Services see tracker-search(1).
+Search for files from a specific service. ServiceName has to be one
+of Documents, Emails, Attachments, Music, Images, Videos, Text or
+Development. For more information on Services see tracker-search(1).
 
 .TP
 \-t, --search-term=SerchTerm
-Adds a fulltext search filter to the query.
+Adds a full text search filter to the query.
 
 .TP
 \-k, --keyword=Keyword
diff --git a/docs/tracker-search-tool.1 b/docs/tracker-search-tool.1
index 145157d..1c4d6cd 100644
--- a/docs/tracker-search-tool.1
+++ b/docs/tracker-search-tool.1
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tracker-search-tool \- Gnome Tracker Search Tool
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .B tracker-search-tool 
-is a graphical search frontend for Gnome.
+is a graphical search front end for Gnome.
 It uses 
 .B trackerd
 to get instant search results.
diff --git a/docs/tracker-search.1 b/docs/tracker-search.1
index 6e712bd..28f032a 100644
--- a/docs/tracker-search.1
+++ b/docs/tracker-search.1
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Videos
 Search for video files.
 .TP
 Text
-Search for textfiles, like word processing files, but e.g. not
+Search for text files, like word processing files, but e.g. not
 spreadsheets.
 .TP
 Development
diff --git a/docs/tracker.cfg.5 b/docs/tracker.cfg.5
index 29995bb..2365812 100644
--- a/docs/tracker.cfg.5
+++ b/docs/tracker.cfg.5
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ The file is organized in sections, each section having a number of
 related options.
 .SS Comments
 Empty lines and those starting with ; or # are ignored.
-.SS value tyopes
+.SS Value Types
 .TP
 VALUE
 Denotes a positive integer.
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Show debugging output, enable this only if you know what you are doing.
 .RE
 .TP
 LowMemoryMode=BOOLEAN
-Enables low memorry mode. Tracker may be slightly less fast at
+Enables low memory mode. Tracker may be slightly less fast at
 indexing/search but also needs less system memory.
 .TP
 InitialSleep=VALUE
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ nb
 Norwegian
 .TP
 pt
-Portugese
+Portuguese
 .TP
 ru
 Russian
diff --git a/docs/trackerd.1 b/docs/trackerd.1
index e2407c2..e9c1953 100644
--- a/docs/trackerd.1
+++ b/docs/trackerd.1
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ code).
 
 .TP
 \-R, --reindex
-This forces trackerd to reindex all watched files and directories.
+This forces trackerd to re-index all watched files and directories.
 Since every watched directory and any previously indexed file has to be
 read and processed again, this may degrade the whole system performance,
 see also --throttle.