diff --git a/tools/tracing/latency/latency-collector.c b/tools/tracing/latency/latency-collector.c
index 57b20802e71be58fc1ca782d2c0b59cd9ea26d5c..b69de9263ee67cdc9bf3edbca2bd3b06fcfd77ea 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/latency/latency-collector.c
+++ b/tools/tracing/latency/latency-collector.c
@@ -1650,7 +1650,7 @@ static void start_printthread(void)
 		if (ufd <  0 ||
 		    read(ufd, seed, sizeof(*seed)) != sizeof(*seed)) {
 			printf(
-"Warning! Using trivial random nummer seed, since %s not available\n",
+"Warning! Using trivial random number seed, since %s not available\n",
 			DEV_URANDOM);
 			fflush(stdout);
 			*seed = i;
@@ -1711,8 +1711,8 @@ static void show_usage(void)
 "\t\t\tbeginning, end, and backtrace.\n\n"
 
 "-g, --graph\t\tEnable the display-graph option in trace_option. This\n"
-"\t\t\toption causes ftrace to show the functionph of how\n"
-"\t\t\tfunctions are calling other functions.\n\n"
+"\t\t\toption causes ftrace to show the graph of how functions\n"
+"\t\t\tare calling other functions.\n\n"
 
 "-c, --policy POL\tRun the program with scheduling policy POL. POL can be\n"
 "\t\t\tother, batch, idle, rr or fifo. The default is rr. When\n"