diff --git a/flask/json.py b/flask/json.py
index bdebf707..a0ed7041 100644
--- a/flask/json.py
+++ b/flask/json.py
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ def dumps(obj, **kwargs):
     This function can return ``unicode`` strings or ascii-only bytestrings by
     default which coerce into unicode strings automatically.  That behavior by
     default is controlled by the ``JSON_AS_ASCII`` configuration variable
-    and can be overriden by the simplejson ``ensure_ascii`` parameter.
+    and can be overridden by the simplejson ``ensure_ascii`` parameter.
     """
     _dump_arg_defaults(kwargs)
     encoding = kwargs.pop('encoding', None)
diff --git a/flask/wrappers.py b/flask/wrappers.py
index 528e94f5..f74a3f37 100644
--- a/flask/wrappers.py
+++ b/flask/wrappers.py
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ class Request(RequestBase):
         parsing fails the :meth:`on_json_loading_failed` method on the
         request object will be invoked.  By default this function will
         only load the json data if the mimetype is ``application/json``
-        but this can be overriden by the `force` parameter.
+        but this can be overridden by the `force` parameter.
 
         :param force: if set to `True` the mimetype is ignored.
         :param silent: if set to `True` this method will fail silently