diff --git a/components/engine/builder/dockerfile/instructions/commands.go b/components/engine/builder/dockerfile/instructions/commands.go
index ef435b27b3..d4f55ceb43 100644
--- a/components/engine/builder/dockerfile/instructions/commands.go
+++ b/components/engine/builder/dockerfile/instructions/commands.go
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/docker/docker/api/types/strslice"
 )
 
-// KeyValuePair represent an arbitrary named value (useful in slice insted of map[string] string to preserve ordering)
+// KeyValuePair represent an arbitrary named value (useful in slice instead of map[string] string to preserve ordering)
 type KeyValuePair struct {
 	Key   string
 	Value string
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ func (c *WorkdirCommand) Expand(expander SingleWordExpander) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-// ShellDependantCmdLine represents a cmdline optionaly prepended with the shell
+// ShellDependantCmdLine represents a cmdline optionally prepended with the shell
 type ShellDependantCmdLine struct {
 	CmdLine      strslice.StrSlice
 	PrependShell bool
diff --git a/components/engine/client/client_test.go b/components/engine/client/client_test.go
index db394e24b5..d6b8f67352 100644
--- a/components/engine/client/client_test.go
+++ b/components/engine/client/client_test.go
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ func TestNegotiateAPIVersion(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 // TestNegotiateAPIVersionOverride asserts that we honor
-// the environment variable DOCKER_API_VERSION when negotianing versions
+// the environment variable DOCKER_API_VERSION when negotiating versions
 func TestNegotiateAPVersionOverride(t *testing.T) {
 	expected := "9.99"
 	defer env.PatchAll(t, map[string]string{"DOCKER_API_VERSION": expected})()