diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/production-ready-features.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/production-ready-features.adoc
index 9e395a5df7..e7563f8baa 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/production-ready-features.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/production-ready-features.adoc
@@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@ Also, if an application is using Kubernetes https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run
 [[production-ready-kubernetes-probes-lifecycle]]
 ==== Application lifecycle and Probes states
 An important aspect of the Kubernetes Probes support is its consistency with the application lifecycle.
-There is a significant different between the `AvailabilityState` which is the in-memory, internal state of the application -
+There is a significant difference between the `AvailabilityState` which is the in-memory, internal state of the application
 and the actual Probe which exposes that state: depending on the phase of application lifecycle, the Probe might not be available.
 
 Spring Boot publishes <<spring-boot-features.adoc#boot-features-application-events-and-listeners,Application Events during startup and shutdown>>,
@@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@ When a Spring Boot application starts:
 |Started
 |`CORRECT`
 |`REFUSING_TRAFFIC`
-|Accepts requests
+|Refuses requests
 |The application context is refreshed. The application performs startup tasks and does not receive traffic yet.
 
 |Ready
diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc
index f840abb479..b10a5b8314 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ The printed banner is registered as a singleton bean under the following name: `
 The `${application.version}` and `${application.formatted-version}` properties are only available if you are using Spring Boot launchers.
 The values won't be resolved if you are running an unpacked jar and starting it with `java -cp <classpath> <mainclass>`.
 
-This is why we recommend that you always use launch unpacked jars using `java org.springframework.boot.loader.JarLauncher`.
+This is why we recommend that you always launch unpacked jars using `java org.springframework.boot.loader.JarLauncher`.
 This will initialize the `application.*` banner variables before building the classpath and launching your app.
 ====
 
diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/convert/ApplicationConversionService.java b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/convert/ApplicationConversionService.java
index 8eedf28524..c58a178d05 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/convert/ApplicationConversionService.java
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/convert/ApplicationConversionService.java
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ public class ApplicationConversionService extends FormattingConversionService {
 	 * type.
 	 * @param sourceType the source type to test
 	 * @param targetType the target type to test
-	 * @return is conversion happens via an {@code ObjectTo...} converter
+	 * @return if conversion happens via an {@code ObjectTo...} converter
 	 * @since 2.4.3
 	 */
 	public boolean isConvertViaObjectSourceType(TypeDescriptor sourceType, TypeDescriptor targetType) {
diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/convert/CharSequenceToObjectConverter.java b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/convert/CharSequenceToObjectConverter.java
index 8a25d8035a..cc2b40d400 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/convert/CharSequenceToObjectConverter.java
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/convert/CharSequenceToObjectConverter.java
@@ -77,13 +77,13 @@ class CharSequenceToObjectConverter implements ConditionalGenericConverter {
 	 * required when ObjectTo... conversion produces incorrect results.
 	 * @param sourceType the source type to test
 	 * @param targetType the target type to test
-	 * @return id string conversion is better
+	 * @return if string conversion is better
 	 */
 	private boolean isStringConversionBetter(TypeDescriptor sourceType, TypeDescriptor targetType) {
 		if (this.conversionService instanceof ApplicationConversionService) {
 			ApplicationConversionService applicationConversionService = (ApplicationConversionService) this.conversionService;
 			if (applicationConversionService.isConvertViaObjectSourceType(sourceType, targetType)) {
-				// If and ObjectTo... converter is being used then there might be a better
+				// If an ObjectTo... converter is being used then there might be a better
 				// StringTo... version
 				return true;
 			}