diff --git a/beets/autotag/match.py b/beets/autotag/match.py
index ed02cdf6b..ddd6b6ee4 100644
--- a/beets/autotag/match.py
+++ b/beets/autotag/match.py
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ def tag_album(items, search_artist=None, search_album=None,
     search. This can be customized by setting the parameters. The
     `mapping` field of the album has the matched `items` as keys.
 
-    The recommendation is calculated from the match qualitiy of the
+    The recommendation is calculated from the match quality of the
     candidates.
     """
     # Get current metadata.
diff --git a/beets/dbcore/db.py b/beets/dbcore/db.py
index 6fb259607..274e7af64 100644
--- a/beets/dbcore/db.py
+++ b/beets/dbcore/db.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ from .query import MatchQuery, NullSort, TrueQuery
 class FormattedMapping(collections.Mapping):
     """A `dict`-like formatted view of a model.
 
-    The accessor `mapping[key]` returns the formated version of
+    The accessor `mapping[key]` returns the formatted version of
     `model[key]` as a unicode string.
 
     If `for_path` is true, all path separators in the formatted values
diff --git a/beets/dbcore/query.py b/beets/dbcore/query.py
index 58af61ceb..4527975a8 100644
--- a/beets/dbcore/query.py
+++ b/beets/dbcore/query.py
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ class CollectionQuery(Query):
 
     def __hash__(self):
         """Since subqueries are mutable, this object should not be hashable.
-        However and for conveniencies purposes, it can be hashed.
+        However and for conveniences purposes, it can be hashed.
         """
         return reduce(mul, map(hash, self.subqueries), 1)
 
diff --git a/beets/dbcore/types.py b/beets/dbcore/types.py
index 90c1d7c2e..7f3b2e39e 100644
--- a/beets/dbcore/types.py
+++ b/beets/dbcore/types.py
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ class Type(object):
         http://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html
         https://docs.python.org/2/library/sqlite3.html#sqlite-and-python-types
 
-        Flexible fields have the type afinity `TEXT`. This means the
+        Flexible fields have the type affinity `TEXT`. This means the
         `sql_value` is either a `buffer` or a `unicode` object` and the
         method must handle these in addition.
         """
diff --git a/beets/importer.py b/beets/importer.py
index 6e7ffcd2c..78b2ac250 100644
--- a/beets/importer.py
+++ b/beets/importer.py
@@ -1243,7 +1243,7 @@ def user_query(session, task):
 
     The coroutine accepts an ImportTask objects. It uses the
     session's `choose_match` method to determine the `action` for
-    this task. Depending on the action additional stages are exectuted
+    this task. Depending on the action additional stages are executed
     and the processed task is yielded.
 
     It emits the ``import_task_choice`` event for plugins. Plugins have
diff --git a/beets/library.py b/beets/library.py
index 377895eeb..edd4b11db 100644
--- a/beets/library.py
+++ b/beets/library.py
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ class PathQuery(dbcore.FieldQuery):
 
 class DateType(types.Float):
     # TODO representation should be `datetime` object
-    # TODO distinguish beetween date and time types
+    # TODO distinguish between date and time types
     query = dbcore.query.DateQuery
 
     def format(self, value):
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ class Item(LibModel):
         All fields in `_media_fields` are written to disk according to
         the values on this object.
 
-        `path` is the path of the mediafile to wirte the data to. It
+        `path` is the path of the mediafile to write the data to. It
         defaults to the item's path.
 
         `tags` is a dictionary of additional metadata the should be
@@ -1300,7 +1300,7 @@ class DefaultTemplateFunctions(object):
     _prefix = b'tmpl_'
 
     def __init__(self, item=None, lib=None):
-        """Paramaterize the functions. If `item` or `lib` is None, then
+        """Parametrize the functions. If `item` or `lib` is None, then
         some functions (namely, ``aunique``) will always evaluate to the
         empty string.
         """
diff --git a/beets/mediafile.py b/beets/mediafile.py
index 22899dee0..842d2322e 100644
--- a/beets/mediafile.py
+++ b/beets/mediafile.py
@@ -315,12 +315,12 @@ class ImageType(enum.Enum):
 
 
 class Image(object):
-    """Strucuture representing image data and metadata that can be
+    """Structure representing image data and metadata that can be
     stored and retrieved from tags.
 
     The structure has four properties.
     * ``data``  The binary data of the image
-    * ``desc``  An optional descritpion of the image
+    * ``desc``  An optional description of the image
     * ``type``  An instance of `ImageType` indicating the kind of image
     * ``mime_type`` Read-only property that contains the mime type of
                     the binary data
@@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ class MP3ImageStorageStyle(ListStorageStyle, MP3StorageStyle):
 
     The `get_list` method inherited from ``ListStorageStyle`` returns a
     list of ``Image``s. Similarly, the `set_list` method accepts a
-    list of ``Image``s as its ``values`` arguemnt.
+    list of ``Image``s as its ``values`` argument.
     """
     def __init__(self):
         super(MP3ImageStorageStyle, self).__init__(key='APIC')