diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch-config.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch-config.rst
index 988dc5a3..bd34afa4 100644
--- a/doc/man1/notmuch-config.rst
+++ b/doc/man1/notmuch-config.rst
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ paths are presumed relative to `$HOME` for items in section
 
    List of regular expressions (without delimiters) for MIME types to
    be indexed as text. Currently this applies only to attachments.  By
-   default the regex matches anywhere in the content type; if they
+   default the regex matches anywhere in the content type; if the
    user wants an anchored match, they should include anchors in their
    regexes.
 
diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch-git.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch-git.rst
index ac1908b6..33a46f84 100644
--- a/doc/man1/notmuch-git.rst
+++ b/doc/man1/notmuch-git.rst
@@ -325,11 +325,11 @@ If it is unset, 'default' is assumed.
 
 .. envvar:: NOTMUCH_GIT_DIR
 
-   Default location of git repository. Overriden by :option:`--git-dir`.
+   Default location of git repository. Overridden by :option:`--git-dir`.
 
 .. envvar:: NOTMUCH_GIT_PREFIX
 
-   Default tag prefix (filter). Overriden by :option:`--tag-prefix`.
+   Default tag prefix (filter). Overridden by :option:`--tag-prefix`.
 
 SEE ALSO
 ========
diff --git a/doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst b/doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst
index 422154c7..858ff685 100644
--- a/doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst
+++ b/doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ EXAMPLES
 
     Matches any word starting with "prelim", inside a message subject.
 
-``(subject (starts-wih quick) "brown fox")``
+``(subject (starts-with quick) "brown fox")``
 
     Match messages whose subject contains "quick brown fox", but also
     "brown fox quicksand".
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ user defined fields is permitted within a macro.
 NOTES
 =====
 
-.. [#macro-details] Technically macros impliment lazy evaluation and
+.. [#macro-details] Technically macros implement lazy evaluation and
                     lexical scope. There is one top level scope
                     containing all macro definitions, but all
                     parameter definitions are local to a given macro.
@@ -347,10 +347,10 @@ NOTES
 
 .. [#aka-bool] a.k.a. boolean prefixes
 
-.. [#not-phrase] Due to the implemention of phrase fields in Xapian,
+.. [#not-phrase] Due to the implementation of phrase fields in Xapian,
                  regex queries could only match individual words.
 
-.. [#not-body] Due the the way ``body`` is implemented in notmuch,
+.. [#not-body] Due to the way ``body`` is implemented in notmuch,
                this modifier is not supported in the ``body`` field.
 
 .. [#not-path] Due to the way recursive ``path`` queries are implemented
diff --git a/doc/notmuch-emacs.rst b/doc/notmuch-emacs.rst
index 71f10e20..7dff7d64 100644
--- a/doc/notmuch-emacs.rst
+++ b/doc/notmuch-emacs.rst
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ manual to refer to the Emacs interface to Notmuch. When this distinction
 is important, we’ll refer to the Emacs interface as
 *notmuch-emacs*.
 
-Notmuch-emacs is highly customizable via the the Emacs customization
+Notmuch-emacs is highly customizable via the Emacs customization
 framework (or just by setting the appropriate variables). We try to
 point out relevant variables in this manual, but in order to avoid
 duplication of information, you can usually find the most detailed
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ in :ref:`notmuch-search`.
 Dealing with duplicates
 -----------------------
 
-If there are are multiple files with the same :mailheader:`Message-ID`
+If there are multiple files with the same :mailheader:`Message-ID`
 (see :any:`duplicate-files`), then :any:`notmuch-show` displays the
 number of duplicates and identifies the current duplicate. In the
 following example duplicate 3 of 5 is displayed.
@@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ operations specified in ``notmuch-tagging-keys``; i.e. each
 notmuch-tag-undo
 ----------------
 
-Each notmuch buffer supporting tagging operations (i.e buffers in
+Each notmuch buffer supporting tagging operations (i.e. buffers in
 :any:`notmuch-show`, :any:`notmuch-search`, :any:`notmuch-tree`, and
 :any:`notmuch-unthreaded` mode) keeps a local stack of tagging
 operations. These can be undone via :any:`notmuch-tag-undo`. By default