diff --git a/man/man5/zpool-features.5 b/man/man5/zpool-features.5
index 275ca8234a..7ed5aeab48 100644
--- a/man/man5/zpool-features.5
+++ b/man/man5/zpool-features.5
@@ -794,8 +794,8 @@ This feature allows zfs to postpone new resilvers if an existing one is already
 in progress. Without this feature, any new resilvers will cause the currently
 running one to be immediately restarted from the beginning.
 
-This feature becomes \fBactive\fR once a resilver has been defered, and returns
-to being \fBenabled\fR when the defered resilver begins.
+This feature becomes \fBactive\fR once a resilver has been deferred, and
+returns to being \fBenabled\fR when the deferred resilver begins.
 
 .RE
 
diff --git a/module/zfs/zil.c b/module/zfs/zil.c
index a70fe1a629..ff14a98b6b 100644
--- a/module/zfs/zil.c
+++ b/module/zfs/zil.c
@@ -1320,7 +1320,7 @@ zil_lwb_set_zio_dependency(zilog_t *zilog, lwb_t *lwb)
 		 * root zios). This is required because of how we can
 		 * defer the DKIOCFLUSHWRITECACHE commands for each lwb.
 		 *
-		 * When the DKIOCFLUSHWRITECACHE commands are defered,
+		 * When the DKIOCFLUSHWRITECACHE commands are deferred,
 		 * the previous lwb will rely on this lwb to flush the
 		 * vdevs written to by that previous lwb. Thus, we need
 		 * to ensure this lwb doesn't issue the flush until