diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
index 52c4d28fad6758b0bca10078ae198c62798e43fd..0e9835f53f3754bc9c5bdb553b9c2a2ed14f1460 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
@@ -3251,7 +3251,7 @@ and RSIP's port range.
 The slurmctld daemon will log events to the syslog file at the specified
 level of detail (the \fBSlurmctldLogFile\fR file will include log messages
 at level of details specified be \fBSlurmctldDebug\fR configuration parameter).
-If the slurmctld daemon is run in the foreground (initialted with the \fB\-D\fR
+If the slurmctld daemon is run in the foreground (started with the \fB\-D\fR
 command line option) the \fBSlurmctldSyslogDebug\fR configuration parameter
 will be ignored.
 The default value is \fBquiet\fR unless there is no configured
@@ -3395,7 +3395,7 @@ Any "%n" within the name is replaced with the Slurm node name on which the
 The slurmd daemon will log events to the syslog file at the specified
 level of detail (the \fBSlurmdLogFile\fR file will include log messages
 at level of details specified be \fBSlurmdDebug\fR configuration parameter).
-If the slurmd daemon is run in the foreground (initialted with the \fB\-D\fR
+If the slurmd daemon is run in the foreground (started with the \fB\-D\fR
 command line option) the \fBSlurmdSyslogDebug\fR configuration parameter
 will be ignored.
 The default value is \fBquiet\fR unless there is no configured
diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slurmdbd.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/slurmdbd.conf.5
index 5dd854168e4f38b6ee3c1226c622b83da7558afd..a4944380241bbea4c26356f0d81bddf842e14be9 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slurmdbd.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slurmdbd.conf.5
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ Log errors and verbose informational messages and even more debugging messages
 The slurmdbd daemon will log events to the syslog file at the specified
 level of detail (the \fBLogFile\fR file will include log messages
 at level of details specified be \fBDebugLevel\fR configuration parameter).
-If the slurmdbd daemon is run in the foreground (initialted with the \fB\-D\fR
+If the slurmdbd daemon is run in the foreground (started with the \fB\-D\fR
 command line option) the \fBDebugLevelSyslog\fR configuration parameter
 will be ignored.
 The default value is \fBquiet\fR unless there is no configured