diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 20a9d2126..c55aad5f0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1742,7 +1742,7 @@ Pass `-help` to VictoriaMetrics in order to see the list of supported command-li
   -search.maxLookback duration
     	Synonim to -search.lookback-delta from Prometheus. The value is dynamically detected from interval between time series datapoints if not set. It can be overridden on per-query basis via max_lookback arg. See also '-search.maxStalenessInterval' flag, which has the same meaining due to historical reasons
   -search.maxPointsPerTimeseries int
-    	The maximum points per a single timeseries returned from /api/v1/query_range. This option doesn't limit the number of scanned raw samples in the database. The main purpose of this option is to limit the number of per-series points returned to graphing UI such as Grafana. There is no sense in setting this limit to values significantly exceeding horizontal resoultion of the graph (default 30000)
+    	The maximum points per a single timeseries returned from /api/v1/query_range. This option doesn't limit the number of scanned raw samples in the database. The main purpose of this option is to limit the number of per-series points returned to graphing UI such as Grafana. There is no sense in setting this limit to values bigger than the horizontal resolution of the graph (default 30000)
   -search.maxQueryDuration duration
     	The maximum duration for query execution (default 30s)
   -search.maxQueryLen size
diff --git a/app/vmselect/promql/eval.go b/app/vmselect/promql/eval.go
index 2db1a2f43..ee8652ba5 100644
--- a/app/vmselect/promql/eval.go
+++ b/app/vmselect/promql/eval.go
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ var (
 	disableCache           = flag.Bool("search.disableCache", false, "Whether to disable response caching. This may be useful during data backfilling")
 	maxPointsPerTimeseries = flag.Int("search.maxPointsPerTimeseries", 30e3, "The maximum points per a single timeseries returned from /api/v1/query_range. "+
 		"This option doesn't limit the number of scanned raw samples in the database. The main purpose of this option is to limit the number of per-series points "+
-		"returned to graphing UI such as Grafana. There is no sense in setting this limit to values significantly exceeding horizontal resoultion of the graph")
+		"returned to graphing UI such as Grafana. There is no sense in setting this limit to values bigger than the horizontal resolution of the graph")
 )
 
 // The minimum number of points per timeseries for enabling time rounding.