diff --git a/pkg/shares/message_shares_test.go b/pkg/shares/message_shares_test.go
index e281ce9d4f..db4e9485d9 100644
--- a/pkg/shares/message_shares_test.go
+++ b/pkg/shares/message_shares_test.go
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ func Test_parseMsgShares(t *testing.T) {
 
 	for _, tc := range tests {
 		tc := tc
-		// run the tests with identically sized messagses
-		t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("%s idendically sized ", tc.name), func(t *testing.T) {
+		// run the tests with identically sized messages
+		t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("%s identically sized ", tc.name), func(t *testing.T) {
 			rawmsgs := make([]coretypes.Message, tc.msgCount)
 			for i := 0; i < tc.msgCount; i++ {
 				rawmsgs[i] = generateRandomMessage(tc.msgSize)
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ func Test_parseMsgShares(t *testing.T) {
 				t.Error(err)
 			}
 
-			// check that the namesapces and data are the same
+			// check that the namespaces and data are the same
 			for i := 0; i < len(msgs.MessagesList); i++ {
 				assert.Equal(t, msgs.MessagesList[i].NamespaceID, parsedMsgs[i].NamespaceID)
 				assert.Equal(t, msgs.MessagesList[i].Data, parsedMsgs[i].Data)
diff --git a/pkg/shares/split_contiguous_shares.go b/pkg/shares/split_contiguous_shares.go
index c0d08cb9d2..ff3fc32ab0 100644
--- a/pkg/shares/split_contiguous_shares.go
+++ b/pkg/shares/split_contiguous_shares.go
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ type ContiguousShareSplitter struct {
 	namespace    namespace.ID
 }
 
-// NewContiguousShareSplitter returns a ContigousShareWriter using the provided
+// NewContiguousShareSplitter returns a ContiguousShareSplitter using the provided
 // namespace.
 func NewContiguousShareSplitter(ns namespace.ID) *ContiguousShareSplitter {
 	pendingShare := NamespacedShare{ID: ns, Share: make([]byte, 0, consts.ShareSize)}