diff --git a/doc/neps/nep-0021-advanced-indexing.rst b/doc/neps/nep-0021-advanced-indexing.rst
index 311ec7dc0cc4..badd41875af2 100644
--- a/doc/neps/nep-0021-advanced-indexing.rst
+++ b/doc/neps/nep-0021-advanced-indexing.rst
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ be deduced:
    no transposing should be done. The axes created by the integer array
    indices are always inserted at the front, even for a single index.
 
-4. Boolean indexing is conceptionally outer indexing. Broadcasting
+4. Boolean indexing is conceptually outer indexing. Broadcasting
    together with other advanced indices in the manner of legacy
    indexing is generally not helpful or well defined.
    A user who wishes the "``nonzero``" plus broadcast behaviour can thus
diff --git a/doc/release/upcoming_changes/28254.expired.rst b/doc/release/upcoming_changes/28254.expired.rst
index 54d82303a506..5f391eb6cbe2 100644
--- a/doc/release/upcoming_changes/28254.expired.rst
+++ b/doc/release/upcoming_changes/28254.expired.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 * Remove alias ``generate_divbyzero_error`` to ``npy_set_floatstatus_divbyzero`` and ``generate_overflow_error`` to ``npy_set_floatstatus_overflow`` (deprecated since 1.10)
 * Remove ``np.tostring`` (deprecated since 1.19)
 * Raise on ``np.conjugate`` of non-numeric types (deprecated since 1.13)
-* Raise when using ``np.bincount(...minlength=None)``, use 0 intead (deprecated since 1.14)
+* Raise when using ``np.bincount(...minlength=None)``, use 0 instead (deprecated since 1.14)
 * Passing ``shape=None`` to functions with a non-optional shape argument errors, use ``()`` instead (deprecated since 1.20)
 * Inexact matches for ``mode`` and ``searchside`` raise (deprecated since 1.20)
 * Setting ``__array_finalize__ = None`` errors (deprecated since 1.23)
diff --git a/doc/release/upcoming_changes/28569.change.rst b/doc/release/upcoming_changes/28569.change.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f9d26fda0484
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release/upcoming_changes/28569.change.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+* A spelling error in the error message returned when converting a string to a float with the
+  method ``np.format_float_positional`` has been fixed.
diff --git a/numpy/_core/src/multiarray/dragon4.c b/numpy/_core/src/multiarray/dragon4.c
index b936f4dc213e..8783ec71e4af 100644
--- a/numpy/_core/src/multiarray/dragon4.c
+++ b/numpy/_core/src/multiarray/dragon4.c
@@ -1665,7 +1665,7 @@ FormatPositional(char *buffer, npy_uint32 bufferSize, BigInt *mantissa,
             pos += numDigits;
 
             if (count > maxPrintLen - pos) {
-                PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError, "Float formating result too large");
+                PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError, "Float formatting result too large");
                 return -1;
             }
 
@@ -1772,7 +1772,7 @@ FormatPositional(char *buffer, npy_uint32 bufferSize, BigInt *mantissa,
         npy_int32 count = desiredFractionalDigits - numFractionDigits;
         
         if (count > maxPrintLen - pos) {
-            PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError, "Float formating result too large");
+            PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError, "Float formatting result too large");
             return -1;
         }
         numFractionDigits += count;
@@ -1816,7 +1816,7 @@ FormatPositional(char *buffer, npy_uint32 bufferSize, BigInt *mantissa,
         }
 
         if (count > maxPrintLen - pos) {
-            PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError, "Float formating result too large");
+            PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError, "Float formatting result too large");
             return -1;
         }
 
@@ -1830,7 +1830,7 @@ FormatPositional(char *buffer, npy_uint32 bufferSize, BigInt *mantissa,
         npy_int32 count = pos;
                 
         if (count > maxPrintLen - shift) {
-            PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError, "Float formating result too large");
+            PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError, "Float formatting result too large");
             return -1;
         }
 
diff --git a/numpy/_core/tests/test_scalarprint.py b/numpy/_core/tests/test_scalarprint.py
index 30073256d5bb..d9e35ab90ce1 100644
--- a/numpy/_core/tests/test_scalarprint.py
+++ b/numpy/_core/tests/test_scalarprint.py
@@ -277,15 +277,15 @@ def test_dragon4_positional_interface_overflow(self, tp, pad_val):
 
         #gh-28068            
         with pytest.raises(RuntimeError, 
-                           match="Float formating result too large"):
+                           match="Float formatting result too large"):
             fpos(tp('1.047'), unique=False, precision=pad_val)
 
         with pytest.raises(RuntimeError, 
-                           match="Float formating result too large"):
+                           match="Float formatting result too large"):
             fpos(tp('1.047'), precision=2, pad_left=pad_val)
 
         with pytest.raises(RuntimeError, 
-                           match="Float formating result too large"):
+                           match="Float formatting result too large"):
             fpos(tp('1.047'), precision=2, pad_right=pad_val)
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("tp", available_float_dtypes)