diff --git a/.github/integration/tests/postgres/40_verify_queries.sh b/.github/integration/tests/postgres/40_verify_queries.sh
index f8565f1aa..4b3653aaa 100644
--- a/.github/integration/tests/postgres/40_verify_queries.sh
+++ b/.github/integration/tests/postgres/40_verify_queries.sh
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ for host in migrate postgres; do
     header="637279707434676801000000010000006c00000000000000"
     dbheader=$(psql -U verify -h "$host" -d sda -At -c "SELECT header from sda.files WHERE id = '$fileID';")
     if [ "$dbheader" != "$header" ]; then
-        echo "wrong header recieved"
+        echo "wrong header received"
         exit 1
     fi
 
diff --git a/postgresql/initdb.d/01_main.sql b/postgresql/initdb.d/01_main.sql
index 6f47b7325..b098d28af 100644
--- a/postgresql/initdb.d/01_main.sql
+++ b/postgresql/initdb.d/01_main.sql
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ CREATE TABLE dataset_events (
 
 -- These are the default dataset events to log.
 INSERT INTO dataset_events(id,title,description)
-VALUES (10, 'registered', 'Register a dataset to recieve file accession IDs mappings.'),
+VALUES (10, 'registered', 'Register a dataset to receive file accession IDs mappings.'),
        (20, 'released'  , 'The dataset is released on this date'),
        (30, 'deprecated', 'The dataset is deprecated on this date');
 
diff --git a/postgresql/migratedb.d/09.sql b/postgresql/migratedb.d/09.sql
index 26de285ba..c37265ec3 100644
--- a/postgresql/migratedb.d/09.sql
+++ b/postgresql/migratedb.d/09.sql
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ BEGIN
     );
 
     INSERT INTO sda.dataset_events(id,title,description)
-    VALUES (10, 'registered', 'Register a dataset to recieve file accession IDs mappings.'),
+    VALUES (10, 'registered', 'Register a dataset to receive file accession IDs mappings.'),
            (20, 'released'  , 'The dataset is released on this date'),
            (30, 'deprecated', 'The dataset is deprecated on this date');
 
diff --git a/sda/cmd/syncapi/syncapi.md b/sda/cmd/syncapi/syncapi.md
index a3a4e78de..10743f9fe 100644
--- a/sda/cmd/syncapi/syncapi.md
+++ b/sda/cmd/syncapi/syncapi.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ The sync service facilitates replication of data and metadata between the nodes
 
 When enabled the service will perform the following tasks:
 
-1. Upon recieving a POST request with JSON data to the `/dataset` route.
+1. Upon receiving a POST request with JSON data to the `/dataset` route.
    1. Parse the JSON blob and validate it against the `file-sync` schema.
    2. Build and send messages to start ingestion of files.
    3. Build and send messages to assign stableIDs to files.
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ These settings control how sync connects to the RabbitMQ message broker.
 - `BROKER_PASSWORD`: password to connect to rabbitmq
 - `BROKER_PREFETCHCOUNT`: Number of messages to pull from the message server at the time (default to 2)
 
-The default routing keys for sending ingestion, accession and maping messages can be overridden by setting the following values:
+The default routing keys for sending ingestion, accession and mapping messages can be overridden by setting the following values:
 
 - `SYNC_API_ACCESSIONROUTING`
 - `SYNC_API_INGESTROUTING`