diff --git a/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py b/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py
index 6a569f7..0bccbfc 100644
--- a/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py
@@ -1607,7 +1607,7 @@
 
 class Tk(Misc, Wm):
     """Toplevel widget of Tk which represents mostly the main window
-    of an appliation. It has an associated Tcl interpreter."""
+    of an application. It has an associated Tcl interpreter."""
     _w = '.'
     def __init__(self, screenName=None, baseName=None, className='Tk',
                  useTk=1, sync=0, use=None):
diff --git a/Lib/tkinter/tix.py b/Lib/tkinter/tix.py
index 46caf75..6458797 100644
--- a/Lib/tkinter/tix.py
+++ b/Lib/tkinter/tix.py
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
         extensions) exist, then the image type is chosen according to the
         depth of the X display: xbm images are chosen on monochrome
         displays and color images are chosen on color displays. By using
-        tix_ getimage, you can advoid hard coding the pathnames of the
+        tix_ getimage, you can avoid hard coding the pathnames of the
         image files in your application. When successful, this command
         returns the name of the newly created image, which can be used to
         configure the -image option of the Tk and Tix widgets.
diff --git a/Lib/tkinter/ttk.py b/Lib/tkinter/ttk.py
index 108a65f..1c7f11a 100644
--- a/Lib/tkinter/ttk.py
+++ b/Lib/tkinter/ttk.py
@@ -993,7 +993,7 @@
         pane is either an integer index or the name of a managed subwindow.
         If kw is not given, returns a dict of the pane option values. If
         option is specified then the value for that option is returned.
-        Otherwise, sets the options to the correspoding values."""
+        Otherwise, sets the options to the corresponding values."""
         if option is not None:
             kw[option] = None
         return _val_or_dict(kw, self.tk.call, self._w, "pane", pane)