Fixed typos

4 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/rest_framework/decorators.py b/rest_framework/decorators.py
index 81e585e1..25bbbb17 100644
--- a/rest_framework/decorators.py
+++ b/rest_framework/decorators.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 """
-The most imporant decorator in this module is `@api_view`, which is used
+The most important decorator in this module is `@api_view`, which is used
 for writing function-based views with REST framework.
 
 There are also various decorators for setting the API policies on function
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def api_view(http_method_names):
 
         # api_view applied with eg. string instead of list of strings
         assert isinstance(http_method_names, (list, tuple)), \
-            '@api_view expected a list of strings, recieved %s' % type(http_method_names).__name__
+            '@api_view expected a list of strings, received %s' % type(http_method_names).__name__
 
         allowed_methods = set(http_method_names) | set(('options',))
         WrappedAPIView.http_method_names = [method.lower() for method in allowed_methods]
diff --git a/rest_framework/response.py b/rest_framework/response.py
index 110ccb13..3ee52ae0 100644
--- a/rest_framework/response.py
+++ b/rest_framework/response.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 """
-The Response class in REST framework is similiar to HTTPResponse, except that
+The Response class in REST framework is similar to HTTPResponse, except that
 it is initialized with unrendered data, instead of a pre-rendered string.
 
 The appropriate renderer is called during Django's template response rendering.
diff --git a/rest_framework/serializers.py b/rest_framework/serializers.py
index 5be07fb7..3e5c366e 100644
--- a/rest_framework/serializers.py
+++ b/rest_framework/serializers.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ from rest_framework.compat import get_concrete_model, six
 #
 #     example_field = serializers.CharField(...)
 #
-# This helps keep the seperation between model fields, form fields, and
+# This helps keep the separation between model fields, form fields, and
 # serializer fields more explicit.
 
 from rest_framework.relations import *
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ class DictWithMetadata(dict):
     def __getstate__(self):
         """
         Used by pickle (e.g., caching).
-        Overriden to remove the metadata from the dict, since it shouldn't be
+        Overridden to remove the metadata from the dict, since it shouldn't be
         pickled and may in some instances be unpickleable.
         """
         return dict(self)
diff --git a/rest_framework/templatetags/rest_framework.py b/rest_framework/templatetags/rest_framework.py
index c86b6456..e9c1cdd5 100644
--- a/rest_framework/templatetags/rest_framework.py
+++ b/rest_framework/templatetags/rest_framework.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ register = template.Library()
 
 # When 1.3 becomes unsupported by REST framework, we can instead start to
 # use the {% load staticfiles %} tag, remove the following code,
-# and add a dependancy that `django.contrib.staticfiles` must be installed.
+# and add a dependency that `django.contrib.staticfiles` must be installed.
 
 # Note: We can't put this into the `compat` module because the compat import
 # from rest_framework.compat import ...