diff --git a/docs/sample_config.yaml b/docs/sample_config.yaml
index 48f273b0b2b7902b9833fca6b487a2f5ad06762c..0ec482719d07ce26e983f9dcff064e339589f69e 100644
--- a/docs/sample_config.yaml
+++ b/docs/sample_config.yaml
@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ caches:
    # alphanumeric or underscores. These caches can be named with or
    # without the special characters stripped. For example, to specify
    # the cache factor for `*stateGroupCache*` via an environment
-   # variable would be `SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR_STATEGROUPCACHE=2`.
+   # variable would be `SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR_STATEGROUPCACHE=2.0`.
    #
    per_cache_factors:
      #get_users_who_share_room_with_user: 2.0
diff --git a/synapse/config/cache.py b/synapse/config/cache.py
index acc31652def88c43955bd5dc1f2ef84d02c28a00..067253879635b836fbabfbb8e88606f5686bceb1 100644
--- a/synapse/config/cache.py
+++ b/synapse/config/cache.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ def _canonicalise_cache_name(cache_name: str) -> str:
 
     Since we specify cache names in config and environment variables we need to
     ignore case and special characters. For example, some caches have asterisks
-    in their name to donate that they're not attached to a particular database
+    in their name to denote that they're not attached to a particular database
     function, and these asterisks need to be stripped out
     """
 
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ class CacheConfig(Config):
            # alphanumeric or underscores. These caches can be named with or
            # without the special characters stripped. For example, to specify
            # the cache factor for `*stateGroupCache*` via an environment
-           # variable would be `SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR_STATEGROUPCACHE=2`.
+           # variable would be `SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR_STATEGROUPCACHE=2.0`.
            #
            per_cache_factors:
              #get_users_who_share_room_with_user: 2.0