diff --git a/virtcontainers/persist/fs/fs.go b/virtcontainers/persist/fs/fs.go
index 8582e552d5..38efdba231 100644
--- a/virtcontainers/persist/fs/fs.go
+++ b/virtcontainers/persist/fs/fs.go
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ func (fs *FS) GlobalWrite(relativePath string, data []byte) error {
 
 	f, err := os.OpenFile(path, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE, fileMode)
 	if err != nil {
-		fs.Logger().WithError(err).WithField("file", path).Error("failed to open file for writting")
+		fs.Logger().WithError(err).WithField("file", path).Error("failed to open file for writing")
 		return err
 	}
 	defer f.Close()
diff --git a/virtcontainers/sandbox.go b/virtcontainers/sandbox.go
index 04259bc808..2b1a605551 100644
--- a/virtcontainers/sandbox.go
+++ b/virtcontainers/sandbox.go
@@ -1322,7 +1322,7 @@ func (s *Sandbox) StatsContainer(containerID string) (ContainerStats, error) {
 // Stats returns the stats of a running sandbox
 func (s *Sandbox) Stats() (SandboxStats, error) {
 	if s.state.CgroupPath == "" {
-		return SandboxStats{}, fmt.Errorf("sandbox cgroup path is emtpy")
+		return SandboxStats{}, fmt.Errorf("sandbox cgroup path is empty")
 	}
 
 	var path string