diff --git a/sbin/nvmecontrol/nvmecontrol.h b/sbin/nvmecontrol/nvmecontrol.h
index 3e76de1cc276..02f55367f7fc 100644
--- a/sbin/nvmecontrol/nvmecontrol.h
+++ b/sbin/nvmecontrol/nvmecontrol.h
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ void print_intel_add_smart(const struct nvme_controller_data *cdata __unused, vo
  * 128-bit integer augments to standard values. On i386 this
  * doesn't exist, so we use 64-bit values. So, on 32-bit i386,
  * you'll get truncated values until someone implement 128bit
- * ints in sofware.
+ * ints in software.
  */
 #define UINT128_DIG	39
 #ifdef __i386__
diff --git a/sbin/nvmecontrol/passthru.c b/sbin/nvmecontrol/passthru.c
index d714e63e3e01..9f4e3189bd04 100644
--- a/sbin/nvmecontrol/passthru.c
+++ b/sbin/nvmecontrol/passthru.c
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ static struct opts opts[] = {
 	ARG("data-len",		'l',	arg_uint32,	opt, data_len,
 	    "Length of data for I/O (bytes)"),
 	ARG("metadata-len",	'm',	arg_uint32,	opt, metadata_len,
-	    "Length of metadata segment (bytes) (igored)"),
+	    "Length of metadata segment (bytes) (ignored)"),
 	ARG("flags",		'f',	arg_uint8,	opt, flags,
 	    "NVMe command flags"),
 	ARG("input-file",	'i',	arg_path,	opt, ifn,