diff --git a/man/man1/ztest.1 b/man/man1/ztest.1
index 8cb07fa997..64f543d21c 100644
--- a/man/man1/ztest.1
+++ b/man/man1/ztest.1
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ ztest -f / -V -T 120
 Use \fBid\fR instead of the SPL hostid to identify this host.  Intended for use
 with ztest, but this environment variable will affect any utility which uses
 libzpool, including \fBzpool(8)\fR.  Since the kernel is unaware of this setting
-results with utilites other than ztest are undefined.
+results with utilities other than ztest are undefined.
 .TP
 .B "ZFS_STACK_SIZE=stacksize"
 Limit the default stack size to \fBstacksize\fR bytes for the purpose of
diff --git a/man/man5/zfs-module-parameters.5 b/man/man5/zfs-module-parameters.5
index f7bb2eb8cc..6e04b4977d 100644
--- a/man/man5/zfs-module-parameters.5
+++ b/man/man5/zfs-module-parameters.5
@@ -1406,7 +1406,7 @@ groups have reached the threshold, all groups are allowed to accept
 allocations.  The default value of 0 disables the feature and causes
 all metaslab groups to be eligible for allocations.
 
-This parameter allows to deal with pools having heavily imbalanced
+This parameter allows one to deal with pools having heavily imbalanced
 vdevs such as would be the case when a new vdev has been added.
 Setting the threshold to a non-zero percentage will stop allocations
 from being made to vdevs that aren't filled to the specified percentage