diff --git a/Modules/_codecsmodule.c b/Modules/_codecsmodule.c
index 9250e3e..9a14700 100644
--- a/Modules/_codecsmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_codecsmodule.c
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
 to the default encoding. errors may be given to set a different error\n\
 handling scheme. Default is 'strict' meaning that encoding errors raise\n\
 a ValueError. Other possible values are 'ignore' and 'replace'\n\
-as well as any other name registerd with codecs.register_error that is\n\
+as well as any other name registered with codecs.register_error that is\n\
 able to handle ValueErrors.");
 
 static PyObject *
diff --git a/Modules/cjkcodecs/multibytecodec.c b/Modules/cjkcodecs/multibytecodec.c
index 695df02..5fb5ec0 100644
--- a/Modules/cjkcodecs/multibytecodec.c
+++ b/Modules/cjkcodecs/multibytecodec.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 Decodes `string' using I, an MultibyteCodec instance. errors may be given\n\
 to set a different error handling scheme. Default is 'strict' meaning\n\
 that encoding errors raise a UnicodeDecodeError. Other possible values\n\
-are 'ignore' and 'replace' as well as any other name registerd with\n\
+are 'ignore' and 'replace' as well as any other name registered with\n\
 codecs.register_error that is able to handle UnicodeDecodeErrors.");
 
 static char *codeckwarglist[] = {"input", "errors", NULL};