diff --git a/src/basic/pidref.h b/src/basic/pidref.h
index 494bc9d8f1..42ddf4e50b 100644
--- a/src/basic/pidref.h
+++ b/src/basic/pidref.h
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ struct PidRef {
 #define PIDREF_NULL (const PidRef) { .fd = -EBADF }
 
 /* A special pidref value that we are using when a PID shall be automatically acquired from some surrounding
- * context, for example connection peer. Much like PIDREF_NULL it will be considerd unset by
+ * context, for example connection peer. Much like PIDREF_NULL it will be considered unset by
  * pidref_is_set().*/
 #define PIDREF_AUTOMATIC (const PidRef) { .pid = PID_AUTOMATIC, .fd = -EBADF }
 
diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-json/json-util.c b/src/libsystemd/sd-json/json-util.c
index d42c61a69c..a1b2ebc0fe 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-json/json-util.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-json/json-util.c
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ int json_dispatch_pidref(const char *name, sd_json_variant *variant, sd_json_dis
         } else
                 return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' is neither a numeric PID nor a PID object.", strna(name));
 
-        /* If SD_JSON_RELAX is set then we'll take a specified but zero field as request for "automic" PID derivation */
+        /* If SD_JSON_RELAX is set then we'll take a specified but zero field as request for "automatic" PID derivation */
         if ((flags & SD_JSON_RELAX) && data.pid == 0 && data.fd_id == 0 && sd_id128_is_null(data.boot_id)) {
                 pidref_done(p);
                 *p = PIDREF_AUTOMATIC;