diff --git a/en/cookbook/mysql-enums.rst b/en/cookbook/mysql-enums.rst
index b8cef7b21..69f0a351b 100644
--- a/en/cookbook/mysql-enums.rst
+++ b/en/cookbook/mysql-enums.rst
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ entities:
         const STATUS_VISIBLE = 'visible';
         const STATUS_INVISIBLE = 'invisible';
 
-        /** @Column(type="varchar") */
+        /** @Column(type="string") */
         private $status;
 
         public function setStatus($status)
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ the **columnDefinition** attribute.
     /** @Entity */
     class Article
     {
-        /** @Column(type="varchar", columnDefinition="ENUM('visible', 'invisible')") */
+        /** @Column(type="string", columnDefinition="ENUM('visible', 'invisible')") */
         private $status;
     }
 
diff --git a/en/reference/tools.rst b/en/reference/tools.rst
index ad40a7899..4f7fdb1b3 100644
--- a/en/reference/tools.rst
+++ b/en/reference/tools.rst
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ This is an **execute one-time** command. It should not be necessary for
 you to call this method multiple times, escpecially when using the ``--from-database``
 flag.
 
-Converting an existing databsae schema into mapping files only solves about 70-80%
+Converting an existing database schema into mapping files only solves about 70-80%
 of the necessary mapping information. Additionally the detection from an existing
 database cannot detect inverse associations, inheritance types,
 entities with foreign keys as primary keys and many of the