diff --git a/changes/bug6500 b/changes/bug6500
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cac2054a3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug6500
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+  o Minor bugfixes:
+    - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt
index 364bfdc2f4..f1ae7bb4f1 100644
--- a/doc/tor.1.txt
+++ b/doc/tor.1.txt
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ GENERAL OPTIONS
     duty of that proxy to properly forward the traffic to the bridge. +
  +
     In its second form, when set along with a corresponding Bridge line, the Tor
-    client launches the pluggable transport proxy exacutable in
+    client launches the pluggable transport proxy executable in
     __path-to-binary__ using __options__ as its command-line options, and
     forwards its traffic to it. It's the duty of that proxy to properly forward
     the traffic to the bridge.
@@ -1709,7 +1709,7 @@ DIRECTORY AUTHORITY SERVER OPTIONS
 
 **V3BandwidthsFile** __FILENAME__::
     V3 authoritative directories only. Configures the location of the
-    bandiwdth-authority generated file storing information on relays' measured
+    bandwidth-authority generated file storing information on relays' measured
     bandwidth capacities. (Default: unset)
 
 **V3AuthUseLegacyKey** **0**|**1**::
diff --git a/doc/torify.1.txt b/doc/torify.1.txt
index ca2c385c94..4a4be1250a 100644
--- a/doc/torify.1.txt
+++ b/doc/torify.1.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
 wrapper available on a system. It calls torsocks or tsocks with a tor specific
 configuration file. +
 
-torsocks is an improved wrapper that explictly rejects UDP, safely resolves DNS
+torsocks is an improved wrapper that explicitly rejects UDP, safely resolves DNS
 lookups and properly socksifies your TCP connections. +
 
 tsocks itself is a wrapper between the tsocks library and the application that