diff --git a/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/indels/PairHMMIndelErrorModel.java b/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/indels/PairHMMIndelErrorModel.java
index 64993b43a..890ed9e3d 100755
--- a/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/indels/PairHMMIndelErrorModel.java
+++ b/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/indels/PairHMMIndelErrorModel.java
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ public class PairHMMIndelErrorModel {
                 if (stop > ref.getWindow().getStop())
                     stop = ref.getWindow().getStop();
 
-                // if there's an insertion in the read, the read stop position will be less than start + read legnth,
+                // if there's an insertion in the read, the read stop position will be less than start + read length,
                 // but we want to compute likelihoods in the whole region that a read might overlap
                 if (stop <= start + readLength) {
                     stop = start + readLength-1;
diff --git a/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/MathUtils.java b/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/MathUtils.java
index bfc326d2d..780eb2101 100644
--- a/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/MathUtils.java
+++ b/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/MathUtils.java
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ public class MathUtils {
     /**
      * Calculates the log10 cumulative sum of an array with log10 probabilities
      *
-     * @param log10p the array with log10 probabilites
+     * @param log10p the array with log10 probabilities
      * @param upTo   index in the array to calculate the cumsum up to
      * @return the log10 of the cumulative sum
      */