diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 4924f436..b783399c 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ endif()
 # Translation support requires CMake 3.20 because it added the Intl::Intl
 # target so we don't need to play with the individual variables.
 #
-# The defintion ENABLE_NLS is added only to those targets that use it, thus
+# The definition ENABLE_NLS is added only to those targets that use it, thus
 # it's not done here. (xz has translations, xzdec doesn't.)
 if(CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL "3.20")
     find_package(Intl)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 65a8724d..2e9f408a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ XZ Utils Release Notes
     * Sandboxing support in xz:
 
         - Landlock is now used even when xz needs to create files.
-          In this case the sandbox is has to be more permissive than
+          In this case the sandbox has to be more permissive than
           when no files need to be created. A similar thing was
           already in use with pledge(2) since 5.3.4alpha.