diff --git a/boxtree/area_query.py b/boxtree/area_query.py
index 6799ce237e60106297c08e19f01430cd2ee6d096..c37620d07d691929f01cd7e40250017184d7878b 100644
--- a/boxtree/area_query.py
+++ b/boxtree/area_query.py
@@ -86,8 +86,8 @@ class AreaQueryResult(DeviceDataRecord):
 
     .. attribute:: leaves_near_ball_starts
 
-        Indices into :attr:`query_lists`.
-        ``query_lists[leaves_near_ball_starts[ball_nr]:
+        Indices into :attr:`leaves_near_ball_lists`.
+        ``leaves_near_ball_lists[leaves_near_ball_starts[ball_nr]:
         leaves_near_ball_starts[ball_nr]+1]``
         results in a list of leaf boxes that intersect `ball_nr`.
 
diff --git a/boxtree/fmm.py b/boxtree/fmm.py
index 97c86a7e158f53f6a6b0906c02e65d37dc0429c3..1780d17a5f5a3bf86e24a0388d73543eb80db4e5 100644
--- a/boxtree/fmm.py
+++ b/boxtree/fmm.py
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ class ExpansionWranglerInterface:
     def eval_direct(self, target_boxes, neighbor_sources_starts,
             neighbor_sources_lists, src_weights):
         """For each box in *target_boxes*, evaluate the influence of the
-        neigbor sources due to *src_weights*, which use :ref:`csr` and are
+        neighbor sources due to *src_weights*, which use :ref:`csr` and are
         indexed like *target_boxes*.
 
         :returns: a new potential array, see :meth:`potential_zeros`.
diff --git a/boxtree/tree_build.py b/boxtree/tree_build.py
index c9ba5e10cf1cd0d01835a167d258ad9a7716d1fc..14941094a3ce02b4687426f48d8c4d25f6c459c8 100644
--- a/boxtree/tree_build.py
+++ b/boxtree/tree_build.py
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ class TreeBuilder(object):
         :arg stick_out_factor: See :attr:`Tree.stick_out_factor` and :ref:`extent`.
         :arg wait_for: may either be *None* or a list of :class:`pyopencl.Event`
             instances for whose completion this command waits before starting
-            exeuction.
+            execution.
         :arg non_adaptive: If *True*, return a tree in which all leaf boxes are
             on the same (last) level. The tree is pruned, in the sense that empty
             boxes have been eliminated.
diff --git a/doc/index.rst b/doc/index.rst
index 563c29db50c55e03502e6c5b19194175ec02fc07..9d86c8880f6a0c58e13b5f1fffcc3df8b362180f 100644
--- a/doc/index.rst
+++ b/doc/index.rst
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ included in the demo file), you can see what's going on:
 .. image:: images/tree.png
 
 More importantly, perhaps, than being able to draw the tree, the :class:`boxtree.Tree`
-data structure is now accesible via the ``tree`` variable above, and the connecitivity
+data structure is now accessible via the ``tree`` variable above, and the connectivity
 information needed for an FMM-like traversal is available in ``trav`` as
 a :class:`boxtree.traversal.FMMTraversalInfo`.