diff --git a/synapse/rest/media/v1/storage_provider.py b/synapse/rest/media/v1/storage_provider.py
index e8f559acc..37687ea7f 100644
--- a/synapse/rest/media/v1/storage_provider.py
+++ b/synapse/rest/media/v1/storage_provider.py
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ class StorageProviderWrapper(StorageProvider):
         backend (StorageProvider)
         store_local (bool): Whether to store new local files or not.
         store_synchronous (bool): Whether to wait for file to be successfully
-            uploaded, or todo the upload in the backgroud.
+            uploaded, or todo the upload in the background.
         store_remote (bool): Whether remote media should be uploaded
     """
 
diff --git a/synapse/storage/registration.py b/synapse/storage/registration.py
index 8e217c940..73580f172 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/registration.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/registration.py
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ class RegistrationStore(
         )
 
         self.register_background_update_handler(
-            "users_set_deactivated_flag", self._backgroud_update_set_deactivated_flag
+            "users_set_deactivated_flag", self._background_update_set_deactivated_flag
         )
 
         # Create a background job for culling expired 3PID validity tokens
@@ -618,14 +618,14 @@ class RegistrationStore(
         hs.get_clock().looping_call(start_cull, THIRTY_MINUTES_IN_MS)
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def _backgroud_update_set_deactivated_flag(self, progress, batch_size):
+    def _background_update_set_deactivated_flag(self, progress, batch_size):
         """Retrieves a list of all deactivated users and sets the 'deactivated' flag to 1
         for each of them.
         """
 
         last_user = progress.get("user_id", "")
 
-        def _backgroud_update_set_deactivated_flag_txn(txn):
+        def _background_update_set_deactivated_flag_txn(txn):
             txn.execute(
                 """
                 SELECT
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ class RegistrationStore(
                 return False
 
         end = yield self.runInteraction(
-            "users_set_deactivated_flag", _backgroud_update_set_deactivated_flag_txn
+            "users_set_deactivated_flag", _background_update_set_deactivated_flag_txn
         )
 
         if end: