diff --git a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
index f541b1c8de8..03c284ad39e 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
@@ -1134,7 +1134,7 @@ These are the UTF-32 codec APIs:
    mark (U+FEFF). In the other two modes, no BOM mark is prepended.
 
    If *Py_UNICODE_WIDE* is not defined, surrogate pairs will be output
-   as a single codepoint.
+   as a single code point.
 
    Return *NULL* if an exception was raised by the codec.
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
index 8be5d18dc14..dd44cb27cce 100644
--- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ methods and attributes from the underlying stream.
 Encodings and Unicode
 ---------------------
 
-Strings are stored internally as sequences of codepoints in
+Strings are stored internally as sequences of code points in
 range ``0x0``-``0x10FFFF``.  (See :pep:`393` for
 more details about the implementation.)
 Once a string object is used outside of CPU and memory, endianness
@@ -838,23 +838,23 @@ There are a variety of different text serialisation codecs, which are
 collectivity referred to as :term:`text encodings <text encoding>`.
 
 The simplest text encoding (called ``'latin-1'`` or ``'iso-8859-1'``) maps
-the codepoints 0-255 to the bytes ``0x0``-``0xff``, which means that a string
-object that contains codepoints above ``U+00FF`` can't be encoded with this
+the code points 0-255 to the bytes ``0x0``-``0xff``, which means that a string
+object that contains code points above ``U+00FF`` can't be encoded with this
 codec. Doing so will raise a :exc:`UnicodeEncodeError` that looks
 like the following (although the details of the error message may differ):
 ``UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u1234' in
 position 3: ordinal not in range(256)``.
 
 There's another group of encodings (the so called charmap encodings) that choose
-a different subset of all Unicode code points and how these codepoints are
+a different subset of all Unicode code points and how these code points are
 mapped to the bytes ``0x0``-``0xff``. To see how this is done simply open
 e.g. :file:`encodings/cp1252.py` (which is an encoding that is used primarily on
 Windows). There's a string constant with 256 characters that shows you which
 character is mapped to which byte value.
 
-All of these encodings can only encode 256 of the 1114112 codepoints
+All of these encodings can only encode 256 of the 1114112 code points
 defined in Unicode. A simple and straightforward way that can store each Unicode
-code point, is to store each codepoint as four consecutive bytes. There are two
+code point, is to store each code point as four consecutive bytes. There are two
 possibilities: store the bytes in big endian or in little endian order. These
 two encodings are called ``UTF-32-BE`` and ``UTF-32-LE`` respectively. Their
 disadvantage is that if e.g. you use ``UTF-32-BE`` on a little endian machine you
diff --git a/Doc/library/email.mime.rst b/Doc/library/email.mime.rst
index 4cdb322f460..1d70225fc86 100644
--- a/Doc/library/email.mime.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/email.mime.rst
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ Here are the classes:
    minor type and defaults to :mimetype:`plain`.  *_charset* is the character
    set of the text and is passed as an argument to the
    :class:`~email.mime.nonmultipart.MIMENonMultipart` constructor; it defaults
-   to ``us-ascii`` if the string contains only ``ascii`` codepoints, and
+   to ``us-ascii`` if the string contains only ``ascii`` code points, and
    ``utf-8`` otherwise.
 
    Unless the *_charset* argument is explicitly set to ``None``, the
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index dad247d3ac4..d9e5cfb5fc9 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
 
 .. function:: chr(i)
 
-   Return the string representing a character whose Unicode codepoint is the integer
+   Return the string representing a character whose Unicode code point is the integer
    *i*.  For example, ``chr(97)`` returns the string ``'a'``. This is the
    inverse of :func:`ord`.  The valid range for the argument is from 0 through
    1,114,111 (0x10FFFF in base 16).  :exc:`ValueError` will be raised if *i* is
diff --git a/Doc/library/html.entities.rst b/Doc/library/html.entities.rst
index 09b0abc8379..e10e46e2b8d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/html.entities.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/html.entities.rst
@@ -33,12 +33,12 @@ This module defines four dictionaries, :data:`html5`,
 
 .. data:: name2codepoint
 
-   A dictionary that maps HTML entity names to the Unicode codepoints.
+   A dictionary that maps HTML entity names to the Unicode code points.
 
 
 .. data:: codepoint2name
 
-   A dictionary that maps Unicode codepoints to HTML entity names.
+   A dictionary that maps Unicode code points to HTML entity names.
 
 
 .. rubric:: Footnotes
diff --git a/Doc/library/json.rst b/Doc/library/json.rst
index 33ad102e6f4..6f5f8b15a8d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/json.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/json.rst
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ The RFC does not explicitly forbid JSON strings which contain byte sequences
 that don't correspond to valid Unicode characters (e.g. unpaired UTF-16
 surrogates), but it does note that they may cause interoperability problems.
 By default, this module accepts and outputs (when present in the original
-:class:`str`) codepoints for such sequences.
+:class:`str`) code points for such sequences.
 
 
 Infinite and NaN Number Values
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
index 5c3ae169801..1ea299fbed0 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ the same type, the lexicographical comparison is carried out recursively.  If
 all items of two sequences compare equal, the sequences are considered equal.
 If one sequence is an initial sub-sequence of the other, the shorter sequence is
 the smaller (lesser) one.  Lexicographical ordering for strings uses the Unicode
-codepoint number to order individual characters.  Some examples of comparisons
+code point number to order individual characters.  Some examples of comparisons
 between sequences of the same type::
 
    (1, 2, 3)              < (1, 2, 4)
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
index 6a2c42555f5..1fdb365847a 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ Functionality
 
 Changes introduced by :pep:`393` are the following:
 
-* Python now always supports the full range of Unicode codepoints, including
+* Python now always supports the full range of Unicode code points, including
   non-BMP ones (i.e. from ``U+0000`` to ``U+10FFFF``).  The distinction between
   narrow and wide builds no longer exists and Python now behaves like a wide
   build, even under Windows.
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ Changes introduced by :pep:`393` are the following:
     so ``'\U0010FFFF'[0]`` now returns ``'\U0010FFFF'`` and not ``'\uDBFF'``;
 
   * all other functions in the standard library now correctly handle
-    non-BMP codepoints.
+    non-BMP code points.
 
 * The value of :data:`sys.maxunicode` is now always ``1114111`` (``0x10FFFF``
   in hexadecimal).  The :c:func:`PyUnicode_GetMax` function still returns
@@ -258,13 +258,13 @@ Changes introduced by :pep:`393` are the following:
 Performance and resource usage
 ------------------------------
 
-The storage of Unicode strings now depends on the highest codepoint in the string:
+The storage of Unicode strings now depends on the highest code point in the string:
 
-* pure ASCII and Latin1 strings (``U+0000-U+00FF``) use 1 byte per codepoint;
+* pure ASCII and Latin1 strings (``U+0000-U+00FF``) use 1 byte per code point;
 
-* BMP strings (``U+0000-U+FFFF``) use 2 bytes per codepoint;
+* BMP strings (``U+0000-U+FFFF``) use 2 bytes per code point;
 
-* non-BMP strings (``U+10000-U+10FFFF``) use 4 bytes per codepoint.
+* non-BMP strings (``U+10000-U+10FFFF``) use 4 bytes per code point.
 
 The net effect is that for most applications, memory usage of string
 storage should decrease significantly - especially compared to former
diff --git a/Lib/codecs.py b/Lib/codecs.py
index bca3ef3934b..145bf120f7c 100644
--- a/Lib/codecs.py
+++ b/Lib/codecs.py
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ class Codec:
                     Python will use the official U+FFFD REPLACEMENT
                     CHARACTER for the builtin Unicode codecs on
                     decoding and '?' on encoding.
-         'surrogateescape' - replace with private codepoints U+DCnn.
+         'surrogateescape' - replace with private code points U+DCnn.
          'xmlcharrefreplace' - Replace with the appropriate XML
                                character reference (only for encoding).
          'backslashreplace'  - Replace with backslashed escape sequences
diff --git a/Lib/email/message.py b/Lib/email/message.py
index a179f8e3742..2f37dbb892a 100644
--- a/Lib/email/message.py
+++ b/Lib/email/message.py
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ class Message:
                     bpayload = payload.encode('ascii')
                 except UnicodeError:
                     # This won't happen for RFC compliant messages (messages
-                    # containing only ASCII codepoints in the unicode input).
+                    # containing only ASCII code points in the unicode input).
                     # If it does happen, turn the string into bytes in a way
                     # guaranteed not to fail.
                     bpayload = payload.encode('raw-unicode-escape')
diff --git a/Lib/html/entities.py b/Lib/html/entities.py
index e891ad65990..f7deae6eb04 100644
--- a/Lib/html/entities.py
+++ b/Lib/html/entities.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """HTML character entity references."""
 
-# maps the HTML entity name to the Unicode codepoint
+# maps the HTML entity name to the Unicode code point
 name2codepoint = {
     'AElig':    0x00c6, # latin capital letter AE = latin capital ligature AE, U+00C6 ISOlat1
     'Aacute':   0x00c1, # latin capital letter A with acute, U+00C1 ISOlat1
@@ -2492,7 +2492,7 @@ html5 = {
     'zwnj;': '\u200c',
 }
 
-# maps the Unicode codepoint to the HTML entity name
+# maps the Unicode code point to the HTML entity name
 codepoint2name = {}
 
 # maps the HTML entity name to the character
diff --git a/Lib/test/multibytecodec_support.py b/Lib/test/multibytecodec_support.py
index 51f5b541b3e..bc1cfc8518d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/multibytecodec_support.py
+++ b/Lib/test/multibytecodec_support.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ class TestBase:
     roundtriptest   = 1    # set if roundtrip is possible with unicode
     has_iso10646    = 0    # set if this encoding contains whole iso10646 map
     xmlcharnametest = None # string to test xmlcharrefreplace
-    unmappedunicode = '\udeee' # a unicode codepoint that is not mapped.
+    unmappedunicode = '\udeee' # a unicode code point that is not mapped.
 
     def setUp(self):
         if self.codec is None:
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_html.py b/Lib/test/test_html.py
index 5e9f382a2d1..d6f0ae857d2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_html.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_html.py
@@ -48,10 +48,10 @@ class HtmlTests(unittest.TestCase):
                 check(s % num, char)
                 for end in [' ', 'X']:
                     check((s+end) % num, char+end)
-        # check invalid codepoints
+        # check invalid code points
         for cp in [0xD800, 0xDB00, 0xDC00, 0xDFFF, 0x110000]:
             check_num(cp, '\uFFFD')
-        # check more invalid codepoints
+        # check more invalid code points
         for cp in [0x1, 0xb, 0xe, 0x7f, 0xfffe, 0xffff, 0x10fffe, 0x10ffff]:
             check_num(cp, '')
         # check invalid numbers
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_multibytecodec.py b/Lib/test/test_multibytecodec.py
index ea592c75010..ce267ddeb31 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_multibytecodec.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_multibytecodec.py
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ class Test_IncrementalEncoder(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(encoder.reset(), None)
 
     def test_stateful(self):
-        # jisx0213 encoder is stateful for a few codepoints. eg)
+        # jisx0213 encoder is stateful for a few code points. eg)
         #   U+00E6 => A9DC
         #   U+00E6 U+0300 => ABC4
         #   U+0300 => ABDC
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_stringprep.py b/Lib/test/test_stringprep.py
index aa7122172f3..e763635efe2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_stringprep.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_stringprep.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # To fully test this module, we would need a copy of the stringprep tables.
-# Since we don't have them, this test checks only a few codepoints.
+# Since we don't have them, this test checks only a few code points.
 
 import unittest
 from test import support
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
index 634bf93ee67..7735a6bbaa4 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -1441,9 +1441,9 @@ class UnicodeTest(string_tests.CommonTest,
     def test_utf8_decode_invalid_sequences(self):
         # continuation bytes in a sequence of 2, 3, or 4 bytes
         continuation_bytes = [bytes([x]) for x in range(0x80, 0xC0)]
-        # start bytes of a 2-byte sequence equivalent to codepoints < 0x7F
+        # start bytes of a 2-byte sequence equivalent to code points < 0x7F
         invalid_2B_seq_start_bytes = [bytes([x]) for x in range(0xC0, 0xC2)]
-        # start bytes of a 4-byte sequence equivalent to codepoints > 0x10FFFF
+        # start bytes of a 4-byte sequence equivalent to code points > 0x10FFFF
         invalid_4B_seq_start_bytes = [bytes([x]) for x in range(0xF5, 0xF8)]
         invalid_start_bytes = (
             continuation_bytes + invalid_2B_seq_start_bytes +
diff --git a/Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_cn.c b/Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_cn.c
index 013c3fb6b77..1a070f2f393 100644
--- a/Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_cn.c
+++ b/Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_cn.c
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 #undef hz
 #endif
 
-/* GBK and GB2312 map differently in few codepoints that are listed below:
+/* GBK and GB2312 map differently in few code points that are listed below:
  *
  *              gb2312                          gbk
  * A1A4         U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT      U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT
diff --git a/Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_hk.c b/Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_hk.c
index b7a7ebd6e12..4f21569a0ce 100644
--- a/Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_hk.c
+++ b/Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_hk.c
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ DECODER(big5hkscs)
         default: return 1;
         }
 
-        NEXT_IN(2); /* all decoded codepoints are pairs, above. */
+        NEXT_IN(2); /* all decoded code points are pairs, above. */
     }
 
     return 0;
diff --git a/Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_kr.c b/Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_kr.c
index 1ad41a7851f..6d6acb5c4be 100644
--- a/Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_kr.c
+++ b/Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_kr.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ ENCODER(euc_kr)
             OUTBYTE1(EUCKR_JAMO_FIRSTBYTE);
             OUTBYTE2(EUCKR_JAMO_FILLER);
 
-            /* All codepoints in CP949 extension are in unicode
+            /* All code points in CP949 extension are in unicode
              * Hangul Syllable area. */
             assert(0xac00 <= c && c <= 0xd7a3);
             c -= 0xac00;
diff --git a/Modules/cjkcodecs/cjkcodecs.h b/Modules/cjkcodecs/cjkcodecs.h
index 25bab41cf3f..d15ccfbb074 100644
--- a/Modules/cjkcodecs/cjkcodecs.h
+++ b/Modules/cjkcodecs/cjkcodecs.h
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@
 #include "multibytecodec.h"
 
 
-/* a unicode "undefined" codepoint */
+/* a unicode "undefined" code point */
 #define UNIINV  0xFFFE
 
-/* internal-use DBCS codepoints which aren't used by any charsets */
+/* internal-use DBCS code points which aren't used by any charsets */
 #define NOCHAR  0xFFFF
 #define MULTIC  0xFFFE
 #define DBCINV  0xFFFD
diff --git a/Modules/unicodedata.c b/Modules/unicodedata.c
index 3979f65738d..ec70e7af9db 100644
--- a/Modules/unicodedata.c
+++ b/Modules/unicodedata.c
@@ -976,7 +976,7 @@ is_unified_ideograph(Py_UCS4 code)
         (0x2B740 <= code && code <= 0x2B81D);   /* CJK Ideograph Extension D */
 }
 
-/* macros used to determine if the given codepoint is in the PUA range that
+/* macros used to determine if the given code point is in the PUA range that
  * we are using to store aliases and named sequences */
 #define IS_ALIAS(cp) ((cp >= aliases_start) && (cp < aliases_end))
 #define IS_NAMED_SEQ(cp) ((cp >= named_sequences_start) && \
@@ -986,7 +986,7 @@ static int
 _getucname(PyObject *self, Py_UCS4 code, char* buffer, int buflen,
            int with_alias_and_seq)
 {
-    /* Find the name associated with the given codepoint.
+    /* Find the name associated with the given code point.
      * If with_alias_and_seq is 1, check for names in the Private Use Area 15
      * that we are using for aliases and named sequences. */
     int offset;
@@ -997,7 +997,7 @@ _getucname(PyObject *self, Py_UCS4 code, char* buffer, int buflen,
     if (code >= 0x110000)
         return 0;
 
-    /* XXX should we just skip all the codepoints in the PUAs here? */
+    /* XXX should we just skip all the code points in the PUAs here? */
     if (!with_alias_and_seq && (IS_ALIAS(code) || IS_NAMED_SEQ(code)))
         return 0;
 
@@ -1125,8 +1125,8 @@ _check_alias_and_seq(unsigned int cp, Py_UCS4* code, int with_named_seq)
     /* check if named sequences are allowed */
     if (!with_named_seq && IS_NAMED_SEQ(cp))
         return 0;
-    /* if the codepoint is in the PUA range that we use for aliases,
-     * convert it to obtain the right codepoint */
+    /* if the code point is in the PUA range that we use for aliases,
+     * convert it to obtain the right code point */
     if (IS_ALIAS(cp))
         *code = name_aliases[cp-aliases_start];
     else
@@ -1138,9 +1138,9 @@ static int
 _getcode(PyObject* self, const char* name, int namelen, Py_UCS4* code,
          int with_named_seq)
 {
-    /* Return the codepoint associated with the given name.
+    /* Return the code point associated with the given name.
      * Named aliases are resolved too (unless self != NULL (i.e. we are using
-     * 3.2.0)).  If with_named_seq is 1, returns the PUA codepoint that we are
+     * 3.2.0)).  If with_named_seq is 1, returns the PUA code point that we are
      * using for the named sequence, and the caller must then convert it. */
     unsigned int h, v;
     unsigned int mask = code_size-1;
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 8a13f2cdd74..216cd6a3e54 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -5048,7 +5048,7 @@ PyUnicode_DecodeUTF32Stateful(const char *s,
         }
 
         if (Py_UNICODE_IS_SURROGATE(ch)) {
-            errmsg = "codepoint in surrogate code point range(0xd800, 0xe000)";
+            errmsg = "code point in surrogate code point range(0xd800, 0xe000)";
             startinpos = ((const char *)q) - starts;
             endinpos = startinpos + 4;
         }
@@ -5067,7 +5067,7 @@ PyUnicode_DecodeUTF32Stateful(const char *s,
                 q += 4;
                 continue;
             }
-            errmsg = "codepoint not in range(0x110000)";
+            errmsg = "code point not in range(0x110000)";
             startinpos = ((const char *)q) - starts;
             endinpos = startinpos + 4;
         }
diff --git a/Python/sysmodule.c b/Python/sysmodule.c
index 106fc84fa99..290eec11991 100644
--- a/Python/sysmodule.c
+++ b/Python/sysmodule.c
@@ -1368,7 +1368,7 @@ hexversion -- version information encoded as a single integer\n\
 implementation -- Python implementation information.\n\
 int_info -- a struct sequence with information about the int implementation.\n\
 maxsize -- the largest supported length of containers.\n\
-maxunicode -- the value of the largest Unicode codepoint\n\
+maxunicode -- the value of the largest Unicode code point\n\
 platform -- platform identifier\n\
 prefix -- prefix used to find the Python library\n\
 thread_info -- a struct sequence with information about the thread implementation.\n\
diff --git a/Tools/unicode/gencodec.py b/Tools/unicode/gencodec.py
index f4c7c038c41..98b39758f9d 100644
--- a/Tools/unicode/gencodec.py
+++ b/Tools/unicode/gencodec.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ MAX_TABLE_SIZE = 8192
 # Standard undefined Unicode code point
 UNI_UNDEFINED = chr(0xFFFE)
 
-# Placeholder for a missing codepoint
+# Placeholder for a missing code point
 MISSING_CODE = -1
 
 mapRE = re.compile('((?:0x[0-9a-fA-F]+\+?)+)'