diff --git a/plugins/aggregators/basicstats/basicstats_test.go b/plugins/aggregators/basicstats/basicstats_test.go
index 5c55284de..040cb0b82 100644
--- a/plugins/aggregators/basicstats/basicstats_test.go
+++ b/plugins/aggregators/basicstats/basicstats_test.go
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ func TestBasicStatsWithOnlySum(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 // Verify that sum doesn't suffer from floating point errors.  Early
-// implementations of sum were calulated from mean and count, which
+// implementations of sum were calculated from mean and count, which
 // e.g. summed "1, 1, 5, 1" as "7.999999..." instead of 8.
 func TestBasicStatsWithOnlySumFloatingPointErrata(t *testing.T) {
 
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ func TestBasicStatsWithUnknownStat(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 // Test that if Stats isn't supplied, then we only do count, min, max, mean,
-// stdev, and s2.  We purposely exclude sum for backwards compatability,
+// stdev, and s2.  We purposely exclude sum for backwards compatibility,
 // otherwise user's working systems will suddenly (and surprisingly) start
 // capturing sum without their input.
 func TestBasicStatsWithDefaultStats(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/plugins/aggregators/valuecounter/valuecounter.go b/plugins/aggregators/valuecounter/valuecounter.go
index c43b7723b..05f4945d2 100644
--- a/plugins/aggregators/valuecounter/valuecounter.go
+++ b/plugins/aggregators/valuecounter/valuecounter.go
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ type ValueCounter struct {
 	Fields []string
 }
 
-// NewValueCounter create a new aggregation plugin which counts the occurances
+// NewValueCounter create a new aggregation plugin which counts the occurrences
 // of fields and emits the count.
 func NewValueCounter() telegraf.Aggregator {
 	vc := &ValueCounter{}
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ func (vc *ValueCounter) SampleConfig() string {
 
 // Description returns the description of the ValueCounter plugin
 func (vc *ValueCounter) Description() string {
-	return "Count the occurance of values in fields."
+	return "Count the occurrence of values in fields."
 }
 
 // Add is run on every metric which passes the plugin
diff --git a/plugins/inputs/procstat/native_finder_notwindows.go b/plugins/inputs/procstat/native_finder_notwindows.go
index 533b7333a..a1683aad3 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/procstat/native_finder_notwindows.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/procstat/native_finder_notwindows.go
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ func (pg *NativeFinder) Pattern(pattern string) ([]PID, error) {
 	return pids, err
 }
 
-//FullPattern matches on the command line when the proccess was executed
+//FullPattern matches on the command line when the process was executed
 func (pg *NativeFinder) FullPattern(pattern string) ([]PID, error) {
 	var pids []PID
 	regxPattern, err := regexp.Compile(pattern)
diff --git a/plugins/outputs/cratedb/cratedb.go b/plugins/outputs/cratedb/cratedb.go
index 01213011f..bac1c730a 100644
--- a/plugins/outputs/cratedb/cratedb.go
+++ b/plugins/outputs/cratedb/cratedb.go
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ func escapeObject(m map[string]interface{}) (string, error) {
 	return `{` + strings.Join(pairs, ", ") + `}`, nil
 }
 
-// escapeString wraps s in the given quote string and replaces all occurences
+// escapeString wraps s in the given quote string and replaces all occurrences
 // of it inside of s with a double quote.
 func escapeString(s string, quote string) string {
 	return quote + strings.Replace(s, quote, quote+quote, -1) + quote
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ func escapeString(s string, quote string) string {
 
 // hashID returns a cryptographic hash int64 hash that includes the metric name
 // and tags. It's used instead of m.HashID() because it's not considered stable
-// and because a cryptogtaphic hash makes more sense for the use case of
+// and because a cryptographic hash makes more sense for the use case of
 // deduplication.
 // [1] https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3210#discussion_r148411201
 func hashID(m telegraf.Metric) int64 {
diff --git a/plugins/outputs/graphite/graphite.go b/plugins/outputs/graphite/graphite.go
index c26c1587f..09cdbe080 100644
--- a/plugins/outputs/graphite/graphite.go
+++ b/plugins/outputs/graphite/graphite.go
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ func (g *Graphite) send(batch []byte) error {
 		if _, e := g.conns[n].Write(batch); e != nil {
 			// Error
 			log.Println("E! Graphite Error: " + e.Error())
-			// Close explicitely
+			// Close explicitly
 			g.conns[n].Close()
 			// Let's try the next one
 		} else {
diff --git a/plugins/outputs/influxdb/http.go b/plugins/outputs/influxdb/http.go
index 236d04321..5a589dc0e 100644
--- a/plugins/outputs/influxdb/http.go
+++ b/plugins/outputs/influxdb/http.go
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ func (c *httpClient) Database() string {
 	return c.database
 }
 
-// CreateDatabase attemps to create a new database in the InfluxDB server.
+// CreateDatabase attempts to create a new database in the InfluxDB server.
 // Note that some names are not allowed by the server, notably those with
 // non-printable characters or slashes.
 func (c *httpClient) CreateDatabase(ctx context.Context) error {
diff --git a/plugins/parsers/grok/parser_test.go b/plugins/parsers/grok/parser_test.go
index cda88ed3d..e3426b0fc 100644
--- a/plugins/parsers/grok/parser_test.go
+++ b/plugins/parsers/grok/parser_test.go
@@ -957,7 +957,7 @@ func TestReplaceTimestampComma(t *testing.T) {
 	require.Equal(t, 2018, m.Time().Year())
 	require.Equal(t, 13, m.Time().Hour())
 	require.Equal(t, 34, m.Time().Second())
-	//Convert Nanosecond to milisecond for compare
+	// Convert nanosecond to millisecond for compare
 	require.Equal(t, 555, m.Time().Nanosecond()/1000000)
 }
 
diff --git a/plugins/processors/topk/topk.go b/plugins/processors/topk/topk.go
index 8a52fa8d4..ba5a0c783 100644
--- a/plugins/processors/topk/topk.go
+++ b/plugins/processors/topk/topk.go
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ func (t *TopK) Apply(in ...telegraf.Metric) []telegraf.Metric {
 	// Add the metrics received to our internal cache
 	for _, m := range in {
 
-		// Check if the metric has any of the fields over wich we are aggregating
+		// Check if the metric has any of the fields over which we are aggregating
 		hasField := false
 		for _, f := range t.Fields {
 			if m.HasField(f) {
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ func (t *TopK) push() []telegraf.Metric {
 		// Sort the aggregations
 		sortMetrics(aggregations, field, t.Bottomk)
 
-		// Create a one dimentional list with the top K metrics of each key
+		// Create a one dimensional list with the top K metrics of each key
 		for i, ag := range aggregations[0:min(t.K, len(aggregations))] {
 
 			// Check whether of not we need to add fields of tags to the selected metrics
diff --git a/plugins/serializers/splunkmetric/splunkmetric.go b/plugins/serializers/splunkmetric/splunkmetric.go
index 77de49ee0..01643e334 100644
--- a/plugins/serializers/splunkmetric/splunkmetric.go
+++ b/plugins/serializers/splunkmetric/splunkmetric.go
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ func (s *serializer) createObject(metric telegraf.Metric) (metricGroup []byte, e
 		 ** metric_name: The name of the metric
 		 ** _value:      The value for the metric
 		 ** time:       The timestamp for the metric
-		 ** All other index fields become deminsions.
+		 ** All other index fields become dimensions.
 	*/
 	type HECTimeSeries struct {
 		Time   float64                `json:"time"`