diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-tests.yml
index c8337ebc..c6ce2532 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-tests.yml
@@ -80,15 +80,15 @@ jobs:
                   flavour: ${{ matrix.flavour }}
                   lua: ${{ matrix.lua }}
 
-            - name: Install test prerequsites (behave from apt)
+            - name: Install test prerequisites (behave from apt)
               run: sudo apt-get install -y -qq python3-behave
               if: matrix.flavour == 'ubuntu-20'
 
-            - name: Install test prerequsites (behave from pip)
+            - name: Install test prerequisites (behave from pip)
               run: pip3 install behave==1.2.6
               if: (matrix.flavour == 'oldstuff') || (matrix.flavour == 'ubuntu-22')
 
-            - name: Install test prerequsites (from apt for Ununtu 2x)
+            - name: Install test prerequisites (from apt for Ununtu 2x)
               run: sudo apt-get install -y -qq python3-pytest python3-pytest-asyncio uvicorn
               if: matrix.flavour != 'oldstuff'
 
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ jobs:
               run: pip3 install -U pytest-asyncio
               if: matrix.flavour == 'ubuntu-20'
 
-            - name: Install test prerequsites (from pip for Ubuntu 18)
+            - name: Install test prerequisites (from pip for Ubuntu 18)
               run: pip3 install pytest pytest-asyncio uvicorn
               if: matrix.flavour == 'oldstuff'
 
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ jobs:
               with:
                   cmake-args: -DBUILD_MODULE=on
 
-            - name: Install test prerequsites
+            - name: Install test prerequisites
               run: sudo apt-get install -y -qq python3-behave
 
             - name: BDD tests (legacy tokenizer)
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ jobs:
               with:
                   flavour: 'ubuntu-22'
 
-            - name: Install test prerequsites
+            - name: Install test prerequisites
               run: sudo apt-get install -y -qq python3-behave
 
             - name: BDD tests (php)
diff --git a/docs/api/Lookup.md b/docs/api/Lookup.md
index a2ba714e..bed01275 100644
--- a/docs/api/Lookup.md
+++ b/docs/api/Lookup.md
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ as the ["Accept-Language" HTTP header](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/
     results when using Nominatim in the browser versus in a command-line tool
     like wget or curl. The command-line tools
     usually don't send any Accept-Language header, prompting Nominatim
-    to show results in the local language. Browsers on the contratry always
+    to show results in the local language. Browsers on the contrary always
     send the currently chosen browser language.
 
 
diff --git a/docs/api/Reverse.md b/docs/api/Reverse.md
index 216ce6e6..67306fa8 100644
--- a/docs/api/Reverse.md
+++ b/docs/api/Reverse.md
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ as the ["Accept-Language" HTTP header](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/
     results when using Nominatim in the browser versus in a command-line tool
     like wget or curl. The command-line tools
     usually don't send any Accept-Language header, prompting Nominatim
-    to show results in the local language. Browsers on the contratry always
+    to show results in the local language. Browsers on the contrary always
     send the currently chosen browser language.
 
 
diff --git a/docs/api/Search.md b/docs/api/Search.md
index ab3c8444..f1b4b8a0 100644
--- a/docs/api/Search.md
+++ b/docs/api/Search.md
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ as the ["Accept-Language" HTTP header](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/
     results when using Nominatim in the browser versus in a command-line tool
     like wget or curl. The command-line tools
     usually don't send any Accept-Language header, prompting Nominatim
-    to show results in the local language. Browsers on the contratry always
+    to show results in the local language. Browsers on the contrary always
     send the currently chosen browser language.
 
 ### Result restriction
diff --git a/docs/customize/Importance.md b/docs/customize/Importance.md
index f192d265..3ff2d558 100644
--- a/docs/customize/Importance.md
+++ b/docs/customize/Importance.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ nominatim.org has preprocessed importance tables for the
 and for [secondary importance](https://nominatim.org/data/wikimedia-secondary-importance.sql.gz)
 based on Wikipedia importance of the administrative areas.
 
-The source code for creating these files is avaible in the Github projects
+The source code for creating these files is available in the Github projects
 [osm-search/wikipedia-wikidata](https://github.com/osm-search/wikipedia-wikidata)
 and
 [osm-search/secondary-importance](https://github.com/osm-search/secondary-importance).
diff --git a/src/nominatim_api/search/db_search_builder.py b/src/nominatim_api/search/db_search_builder.py
index 29a853a0..e29f0b93 100644
--- a/src/nominatim_api/search/db_search_builder.py
+++ b/src/nominatim_api/search/db_search_builder.py
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ class SearchBuilder:
                               use_lookup: bool) -> List[dbf.FieldLookup]:
         """ Create a ranking expression with full name terms and
             additional address lookup. When 'use_lookup' is true, then
-            address lookups will use the index, when the occurences are not
+            address lookups will use the index, when the occurrences are not
             too many.
         """
         # At this point drop unindexed partials from the address.
diff --git a/src/nominatim_db/tools/refresh.py b/src/nominatim_db/tools/refresh.py
index 6946a41a..6a40c0a7 100644
--- a/src/nominatim_db/tools/refresh.py
+++ b/src/nominatim_db/tools/refresh.py
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ def import_importance_csv(dsn: str, data_file: Path) -> int:
     if not data_file.exists():
         return 1
 
-    # Only import the first occurance of a wikidata ID.
+    # Only import the first occurence of a wikidata ID.
     # This keeps indexes and table small.
     wd_done = set()