diff --git a/Include/unicodeobject.h b/Include/unicodeobject.h
index 74474f5bb8f976..5839c747a29275 100644
--- a/Include/unicodeobject.h
+++ b/Include/unicodeobject.h
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject*) PyUnicode_AsLatin1String(
 
 /* --- ASCII Codecs -------------------------------------------------------
 
-   Only 7-bit ASCII data is excepted. All other codes generate errors.
+   Only 7-bit ASCII data is expected. All other codes generate errors.
 
 */
 
diff --git a/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c b/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c
index 93bc784df5386f..f10cf58216acf7 100644
--- a/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c
+++ b/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c
@@ -1823,7 +1823,7 @@ resize(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
     dict = PyObject_stgdict((PyObject *)obj);
     if (dict == NULL) {
         PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
-                        "excepted ctypes instance");
+                        "expected ctypes instance");
         return NULL;
     }
     if (size < dict->size) {