diff --git a/pkg/volume/util/util.go b/pkg/volume/util/util.go
index c62d83f11c..439ba4c2e6 100644
--- a/pkg/volume/util/util.go
+++ b/pkg/volume/util/util.go
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ func notRunning(statuses []v1.ContainerStatus) bool {
 }
 
 // SplitUniqueName splits the unique name to plugin name and volume name strings. It expects the uniqueName to follow
-// the fromat plugin_name/volume_name and the plugin name must be namespaced as described by the plugin interface,
+// the format plugin_name/volume_name and the plugin name must be namespaced as described by the plugin interface,
 // i.e. namespace/plugin containing exactly one '/'. This means the unique name will always be in the form of
 // plugin_namespace/plugin/volume_name, see k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/volume/plugins.go VolumePlugin interface
 // description and pkg/volume/util/volumehelper/volumehelper.go GetUniqueVolumeNameFromSpec that constructs
diff --git a/test/e2e/instrumentation/monitoring/custom_metrics_deployments.go b/test/e2e/instrumentation/monitoring/custom_metrics_deployments.go
index 898d6e1a3d..b61b3e22af 100644
--- a/test/e2e/instrumentation/monitoring/custom_metrics_deployments.go
+++ b/test/e2e/instrumentation/monitoring/custom_metrics_deployments.go
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ func stackdriverExporterContainerSpec(name string, namespace string, metricName
 }
 
 // PrometheusExporterDeployment is a Deployment of simple application with two containers
-// one exposing a metric in prometheus fromat and second a prometheus-to-sd container
+// one exposing a metric in prometheus format and second a prometheus-to-sd container
 // that scrapes the metric and pushes it to stackdriver.
 func PrometheusExporterDeployment(name, namespace string, replicas int32, metricValue int64) *extensions.Deployment {
 	return &extensions.Deployment{