diff --git a/sbin/ipfw/ipfw.8 b/sbin/ipfw/ipfw.8
index e85ae34caab8..44eb05c51a96 100644
--- a/sbin/ipfw/ipfw.8
+++ b/sbin/ipfw/ipfw.8
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ and
 commands.
 .Pp
 .Ss COMMAND OPTIONS
-The following genral options are available when invoking
+The following general options are available when invoking
 .Nm :
 .Bl -tag -width indent
 .It Fl a
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ The tag acts as an internal marker (it is not sent out over
 the wire) that can be used to identify these packets later on.
 This can be used, for example, to provide trust between interfaces
 and to start doing policy-based filtering.
-A packet can have mutiple tags at the same time.
+A packet can have multiple tags at the same time.
 Tags are "sticky", meaning once a tag is applied to a packet by a
 matching rule it exists until explicit removal.
 Tags are kept with the packet everywhere within the kernel, but are
@@ -1213,7 +1213,7 @@ the given FIB (routing table) number.
 Matches IPv6 packets containing any of the flow labels given in
 .Ar labels .
 .Ar labels
-is a comma seperate list of numeric flow labels.
+is a comma separated list of numeric flow labels.
 .It Cm frag
 Matches packets that are fragments and not the first
 fragment of an IP datagram.