diff --git a/doc/OnlineDocs/explanation/solvers/persistent.rst b/doc/OnlineDocs/explanation/solvers/persistent.rst
index e926dfd82c9..8ee32120ff3 100644
--- a/doc/OnlineDocs/explanation/solvers/persistent.rst
+++ b/doc/OnlineDocs/explanation/solvers/persistent.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ notify the solver of incremental changes to a Pyomo model. The
 persistent solver interfaces create and store model instances from the
 Python API for the corresponding solver. For example, the
 :class:`GurobiPersistent<pyomo.solvers.plugins.solvers.gurobi_persistent.GurobiPersistent>`
-class maintaints a pointer to a gurobipy Model object. Thus, we can
+class maintains a pointer to a gurobipy Model object. Thus, we can
 make small changes to the model and notify the solver rather than
 recreating the entire model using the solver Python API (or rewriting
 an entire model file - e.g., an lp file) every time the model is
diff --git a/pyomo/common/fileutils.py b/pyomo/common/fileutils.py
index 8c3c6dfecaa..d6d20a53950 100644
--- a/pyomo/common/fileutils.py
+++ b/pyomo/common/fileutils.py
@@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ class PathManager(object):
 
     The ``Executable`` singleton uses :py:class:`ExecutableData`, an
     extended form of the :py:class:`PathData` class, which provides the
-    ``executable`` property as an alais for :py:meth:`path()` and
+    ``executable`` property as an alias for :py:meth:`path()` and
     :py:meth:`set_path()`:
 
     .. doctest::
diff --git a/pyomo/contrib/pynumero/sparse/mpi_block_matrix.py b/pyomo/contrib/pynumero/sparse/mpi_block_matrix.py
index d32adebce0e..41495c83565 100644
--- a/pyomo/contrib/pynumero/sparse/mpi_block_matrix.py
+++ b/pyomo/contrib/pynumero/sparse/mpi_block_matrix.py
@@ -148,14 +148,14 @@ def nnz(self):
     @property
     def owned_blocks(self):
         """
-        Returns list with inidices of blocks owned by this processor.
+        Returns list with indices of blocks owned by this processor.
         """
         return list(zip(*np.nonzero(self._owned_mask)))
 
     @property
     def shared_blocks(self):
         """
-        Returns list of 2-tuples with inidices of blocks shared by all processors
+        Returns list of 2-tuples with indices of blocks shared by all processors
         """
         return list(zip(*np.nonzero(self._rank_owner < 0)))