diff --git a/core/bloombits/matcher.go b/core/bloombits/matcher.go
index cf799c8324..6a4cfb23db 100644
--- a/core/bloombits/matcher.go
+++ b/core/bloombits/matcher.go
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ type partialMatches struct {
 // bit with the given number of fetch elements, or a response for such a request.
 // It can also have the actual results set to be used as a delivery data struct.
 //
-// The contest and error fields are used by the light client to terminate matching
+// The context and error fields are used by the light client to terminate matching
 // early if an error is encountered on some path of the pipeline.
 type Retrieval struct {
 	Bit      uint
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ func (m *Matcher) distributor(dist chan *request, session *MatcherSession) {
 		shutdown   = session.quit            // Shutdown request channel, will gracefully wait for pending requests
 	)
 
-	// assign is a helper method fo try to assign a pending bit an actively
+	// assign is a helper method to try to assign a pending bit an actively
 	// listening servicer, or schedule it up for later when one arrives.
 	assign := func(bit uint) {
 		select {
diff --git a/core/bloombits/matcher_test.go b/core/bloombits/matcher_test.go
index 36764c3f17..7f3d5f279c 100644
--- a/core/bloombits/matcher_test.go
+++ b/core/bloombits/matcher_test.go
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ func TestMatcherRandom(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 // Tests that the matcher can properly find matches if the starting block is
-// shifter from a multiple of 8. This is needed to cover an optimisation with
+// shifted from a multiple of 8. This is needed to cover an optimisation with
 // bitset matching https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/15309.
 func TestMatcherShifted(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ func TestWildcardMatcher(t *testing.T) {
 	testMatcherBothModes(t, nil, 0, 10000, 0)
 }
 
-// makeRandomIndexes generates a random filter system, composed on multiple filter
+// makeRandomIndexes generates a random filter system, composed of multiple filter
 // criteria, each having one bloom list component for the address and arbitrarily
 // many topic bloom list components.
 func makeRandomIndexes(lengths []int, max int) [][]bloomIndexes {