diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index 773065a284..3721bafa4c 100644
--- a/INSTALL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ The code for the HIP based grid backend was developed and tested on Mi100 but
 should work out of the box on Nvidia hardware as well.
 
 - USE `-D__GRID_HIP` to enable AMD GPU support for collocate and integrate
-  rountines.
+  routines.
 - Add `GPUVER=Mi50, Mi60, Mi100`
 - Add `OFFLOAD_CC = hipcc`
 - Add  `-lamdhip64` to the `LIBS` variable
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ CP2K's grid backend does not yet support OpenCL devices.
   (if no `opencl-headers` are installed, CPATH can be needed to point into the CUDA
   installation similarly to `LIBRARY_PATH` to find `libOpenCL.so` at link-time).
 - There is no special offload compiler needed hence regular `CC` and `CFLAGS` are
-  suffient to build the OpenCL backend as well as the OpenCL based LIBSMM library.
+  sufficient to build the OpenCL backend as well as the OpenCL based LIBSMM library.
 - To enable the OpenCL backend for DBCSR set `OFFLOAD_TARGET = opencl` and add
   `-D__DBCSR_ACC` and `-D__OPENCL` to `CFLAGS`, i.e., `OFFLOAD_CC` and
   `OFFLOAD_FLAGS` are set accordingly (can be used to deviate if desired).
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ Conventionally, there are six versions:
 | Acronym |             Meaning              |
 |---------|----------------------------------|
 | sdbg    | OpenMP + debug settings          |
-| popt    | OpenMP + OMP_NUM_THREADS=1       |
+| sopt    | OpenMP + OMP_NUM_THREADS=1       |
 | ssmp    | OpenMP                           |
 | pdbg    | MPI + OpenMP + debug settings    |
 | popt    | MPI + OpenMP + OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 |
diff --git a/benchmarks/QS_mp2_rpa/README.md b/benchmarks/QS_mp2_rpa/README.md
index 64920a17f6..5580b50f23 100644
--- a/benchmarks/QS_mp2_rpa/README.md
+++ b/benchmarks/QS_mp2_rpa/README.md
@@ -15,5 +15,5 @@ Libint library has to be compiled such that higher angular momentum can be compu
 (see: [libint-cp2k/README](https://github.com/cp2k/libint-cp2k), use,
 for example, `--with-libint-max-am=6 --with-libderiv-max-am1=5`.
 
-It is advantageouss to have a OMP/MPI hybrid code (cp2k.psmp). In particular the
+It is advantageous to have a OMP/MPI hybrid code (cp2k.psmp). In particular the
 RI-MP2 and RI-dRPA inputs are suitable for being used with 2 threads per task.
diff --git a/src/grid/README.md b/src/grid/README.md
index d240e8cf6f..ce7e379fa1 100644
--- a/src/grid/README.md
+++ b/src/grid/README.md
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ Currently, this package offers the following main features:
 In order to support diverse hardware architectures different backends are available.
 Currently, the following backends exist:
 
-- [ref](./ref/): A reference implemenentations for documenation and validation purposes.
-- [cpu](./cpu/): A performance optimized implementatin for x86 CPUs.
+- [ref](./ref/): A reference implementations for documentation and validation purposes.
+- [cpu](./cpu/): A performance optimized implementation for x86 CPUs.
 
 ## The .task files
 
diff --git a/tests/README.md b/tests/README.md
index f9728d7a7f..708fba566b 100644
--- a/tests/README.md
+++ b/tests/README.md
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ These files will be run in order.
 
 Some regression testing directories contain:
 
-- `untested_inputs`: list of input files, which have a more meaningfull setup
+- `untested_inputs`: list of input files, which have a more meaningful setup
   compared to the regtests, but that are not checked at every single commit.
 
 ### How to Run Regression Tests