diff --git a/jubjub/src/fr.rs b/jubjub/src/fr.rs
index 98c864b7f..139855847 100644
--- a/jubjub/src/fr.rs
+++ b/jubjub/src/fr.rs
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ const R2: Fr = Fr([
     0x04f6_547b_8d12_7688,
 ]);
 
-/// R^2 = 2^768 mod r
+/// R^3 = 2^768 mod r
 const R3: Fr = Fr([
     0xe0d6_c656_3d83_0544,
     0x323e_3883_598d_0f85,
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ impl Fr {
         //
         // and computing their sum in the field. It remains to see that arbitrary 256-bit
         // numbers can be placed into Montgomery form safely using the reduction. The
-        // reduction works so long as the product is less than R=2^256 multipled by
+        // reduction works so long as the product is less than R=2^256 multiplied by
         // the modulus. This holds because for any `c` smaller than the modulus, we have
         // that (2^256 - 1)*c is an acceptable product for the reduction. Therefore, the
         // reduction always works so long as `c` is in the field; in this case it is either the
diff --git a/jubjub/src/lib.rs b/jubjub/src/lib.rs
index fb4e047ef..cb4699bda 100644
--- a/jubjub/src/lib.rs
+++ b/jubjub/src/lib.rs
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ mod fr;
 pub use bls12_381::Scalar as Fq;
 pub use fr::Fr;
 
+/// A better name than Fr.
+pub type Scalar = Fr;
+
 const FR_MODULUS_BYTES: [u8; 32] = [
     183, 44, 247, 214, 94, 14, 151, 208, 130, 16, 200, 204, 147, 32, 104, 166, 0, 59, 52, 1, 1, 59,
     103, 6, 169, 175, 51, 101, 234, 180, 125, 14,