diff --git a/includes/Rest/ResponseInterface.php b/includes/Rest/ResponseInterface.php
index 05374147fc6..f6b727cfd8a 100644
--- a/includes/Rest/ResponseInterface.php
+++ b/includes/Rest/ResponseInterface.php
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ use Psr\Http\Message\StreamInterface;
  * An interface similar to PSR-7's ResponseInterface, the primary difference
  * being that it is mutable.
  *
- * @stable for implementing
+ * @stable to implement
  */
 interface ResponseInterface {
 	// ResponseInterface
diff --git a/includes/actions/EditAction.php b/includes/actions/EditAction.php
index bc632a4fa76..e81446b8ac1 100644
--- a/includes/actions/EditAction.php
+++ b/includes/actions/EditAction.php
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
  *
  * This is a wrapper that will call the EditPage class or a custom editor from an extension.
  *
- * @stable for subclasssing
+ * @stable to extend
  * @ingroup Actions
  */
 class EditAction extends FormlessAction {
diff --git a/includes/language/MessageLocalizer.php b/includes/language/MessageLocalizer.php
index ea64f4da644..b90006c58c2 100644
--- a/includes/language/MessageLocalizer.php
+++ b/includes/language/MessageLocalizer.php
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 /**
  * Interface for localizing messages in MediaWiki
  *
- * @stable for implementing
+ * @stable to implement
  *
  * @since 1.30
  * @ingroup Language
diff --git a/includes/linker/Hook/LinkerGenerateRollbackLinkHook.php b/includes/linker/Hook/LinkerGenerateRollbackLinkHook.php
index aae53db6f14..58abd2b16c7 100644
--- a/includes/linker/Hook/LinkerGenerateRollbackLinkHook.php
+++ b/includes/linker/Hook/LinkerGenerateRollbackLinkHook.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use IContextSource;
 use MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionRecord;
 
 /**
- * @stable for implementation
+ * @stable to implement
  * @ingroup Hooks
  */
 interface LinkerGenerateRollbackLinkHook {
diff --git a/includes/rcfeed/RCFeedFormatter.php b/includes/rcfeed/RCFeedFormatter.php
index 9b7410c4d27..c72e21e047f 100644
--- a/includes/rcfeed/RCFeedFormatter.php
+++ b/includes/rcfeed/RCFeedFormatter.php
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 /**
  * Interface for RC feed formatters
  *
- * @stable for implementing
+ * @stable to implement
  * @since 1.22
  */
 interface RCFeedFormatter {
diff --git a/includes/skins/Hook/SkinPageReadyConfigHook.php b/includes/skins/Hook/SkinPageReadyConfigHook.php
index cd76d09eeb1..edd7f0f09a5 100644
--- a/includes/skins/Hook/SkinPageReadyConfigHook.php
+++ b/includes/skins/Hook/SkinPageReadyConfigHook.php
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ use ResourceLoaderContext;
  * This is a hook handler interface, see docs/Hooks.md.
  * Use the hook name "SkinPageReadyConfig" to register handlers implementing this interface.
  *
- * @stable for implementation
+ * @stable to implement
  */
 interface SkinPageReadyConfigHook {
 	/**
diff --git a/includes/skins/SkinMustache.php b/includes/skins/SkinMustache.php
index 2f07fd7d058..cfaa6d44502 100644
--- a/includes/skins/SkinMustache.php
+++ b/includes/skins/SkinMustache.php
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ class SkinMustache extends SkinTemplate {
 
 	/**
 	 * @since 1.36
-	 * @stable for overriding
+	 * @stable to override
 	 * @param string $name of the portal e.g. p-personal the name is personal.
 	 * @param array $items that are accepted input to Skin::makeListItem
 	 * @return array data that can be passed to a Mustache template that
diff --git a/maintenance/includes/Maintenance.php b/maintenance/includes/Maintenance.php
index 79dbbdfe356..540d0c8d15e 100644
--- a/maintenance/includes/Maintenance.php
+++ b/maintenance/includes/Maintenance.php
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ use Wikimedia\Rdbms\IMaintainableDatabase;
  * be careful with the constructor when subclassing. MediaWikiServices instance
  * is not yet available at this point.
  *
- * @stable for subclassing
+ * @stable to extend
  *
  * @since 1.16
  * @ingroup Maintenance
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ abstract class Maintenance {
 	 * Default constructor. Children should call this *first* if implementing
 	 * their own constructors
 	 *
-	 * @stable for calling
+	 * @stable to call
 	 */
 	public function __construct() {
 		$this->addDefaultParams();
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ abstract class Maintenance {
 	/**
 	 * Throw some output to the user. Scripts can call this with no fears,
 	 * as we handle all --quiet stuff here
-	 * @stable for overriding
+	 * @stable to override
 	 * @param string $out The text to show to the user
 	 * @param mixed|null $channel Unique identifier for the channel. See function outputChanneled.
 	 */
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ abstract class Maintenance {
 	/**
 	 * Throw an error to the user. Doesn't respect --quiet, so don't use
 	 * this for non-error output
-	 * @stable for overriding
+	 * @stable to override
 	 * @param string $err The error to display
 	 * @param int $die Deprecated since 1.31, use Maintenance::fatalError() instead
 	 */
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ abstract class Maintenance {
 	/**
 	 * Output a message and terminate the current script.
 	 *
-	 * @stable for overriding
+	 * @stable to override
 	 * @param string $msg Error message
 	 * @param int $exitCode PHP exit status. Should be in range 1-254.
 	 * @since 1.31
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ abstract class Maintenance {
 	 *    Maintenance::DB_NONE  -  For no DB access at all
 	 *    Maintenance::DB_STD   -  For normal DB access, default
 	 *    Maintenance::DB_ADMIN -  For admin DB access
-	 * @stable for overriding
+	 * @stable to override
 	 * @return int
 	 */
 	public function getDbType() {
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ abstract class Maintenance {
 
 	/**
 	 * @since 1.24
-	 * @stable for overriding
+	 * @stable to override
 	 * @return Config
 	 */
 	public function getConfig() {
@@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ abstract class Maintenance {
 	 * to allow sysadmins to explicitly set one if they'd prefer to override
 	 * defaults (or for people using Suhosin which yells at you for trying
 	 * to disable the limits)
-	 * @stable for overriding
+	 * @stable to override
 	 * @return string
 	 */
 	public function memoryLimit() {
@@ -950,7 +950,7 @@ abstract class Maintenance {
 
 	/**
 	 * Run some validation checks on the params, etc
-	 * @stable for overriding
+	 * @stable to override
 	 */
 	public function validateParamsAndArgs() {
 		$die = false;
@@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ abstract class Maintenance {
 
 	/**
 	 * Handle the special variables that are global to all scripts
-	 * @stable for overriding
+	 * @stable to override
 	 */
 	protected function loadSpecialVars() {
 		if ( $this->hasOption( 'dbuser' ) ) {
@@ -1123,7 +1123,7 @@ abstract class Maintenance {
 
 	/**
 	 * Handle some last-minute setup here.
-	 * @stable for overriding
+	 * @stable to override
 	 */
 	public function finalSetup() {
 		global $wgCommandLineMode, $wgServer, $wgShowExceptionDetails, $wgShowHostnames;
@@ -1209,7 +1209,7 @@ abstract class Maintenance {
 
 	/**
 	 * Execute a callback function at the end of initialisation
-	 * @stable for overriding
+	 * @stable to override
 	 */
 	protected function afterFinalSetup() {
 		if ( defined( 'MW_CMDLINE_CALLBACK' ) ) {
@@ -1351,7 +1351,7 @@ abstract class Maintenance {
 	 *
 	 * This function has the same parameters as LoadBalancer::getConnection().
 	 *
-	 * @stable for overriding
+	 * @stable to override
 	 *
 	 * @param int $db DB index (DB_REPLICA/DB_PRIMARY)
 	 * @param string|string[] $groups default: empty array
@@ -1371,7 +1371,7 @@ abstract class Maintenance {
 
 	/**
 	 * Sets database object to be returned by getDB().
-	 * @stable for overriding
+	 * @stable to override
 	 *
 	 * @param IMaintainableDatabase $db
 	 */
diff --git a/tests/phpunit/MediaWikiIntegrationTestCase.php b/tests/phpunit/MediaWikiIntegrationTestCase.php
index 5e11cfd4f98..792ea7fb545 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/MediaWikiIntegrationTestCase.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/MediaWikiIntegrationTestCase.php
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ use Wikimedia\Rdbms\IMaintainableDatabase;
  * Consider using MediaWikiUnitTestCase and mocking dependencies if your code uses dependency
  * injection and does not access any globals.
  *
- * @stable for subclassing
+ * @stable to extend
  */
 abstract class MediaWikiIntegrationTestCase extends PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase {
 	use MediaWikiCoversValidator;
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ abstract class MediaWikiIntegrationTestCase extends PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase {
 	];
 
 	/**
-	 * @stable for calling
+	 * @stable to call
 	 * @param string|null $name
 	 * @param array $data
 	 * @param string $dataName
@@ -1360,7 +1360,7 @@ abstract class MediaWikiIntegrationTestCase extends PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase {
 	 * @see resetDB()
 	 *
 	 * @since 1.27
-	 * @stable for overriding
+	 * @stable to override
 	 */
 	public function addDBDataOnce() {
 	}
@@ -1373,7 +1373,7 @@ abstract class MediaWikiIntegrationTestCase extends PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase {
 	 * @see resetDB()
 	 *
 	 * @since 1.18
-	 * @stable for overriding
+	 * @stable to override
 	 */
 	public function addDBData() {
 	}
@@ -1639,7 +1639,7 @@ abstract class MediaWikiIntegrationTestCase extends PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase {
 	 * by the 'scripts', even if the test is only interested in a subset of them, otherwise
 	 * the overrides may not be fully cleaned up, leading to errors later.
 	 *
-	 * @stable for overriding
+	 * @stable to override
 	 * @param IMaintainableDatabase $db The DB connection to use for the mock schema.
 	 *        May be used to check the current state of the schema, to determine what
 	 *        overrides are needed.
diff --git a/tests/phpunit/MediaWikiUnitTestCase.php b/tests/phpunit/MediaWikiUnitTestCase.php
index edfdb8a6e8e..eea22d2b6e2 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/MediaWikiUnitTestCase.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/MediaWikiUnitTestCase.php
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ use Wikimedia\ObjectFactory;
  * Extend this class if you are testing classes which use dependency injection and do not access
  * global functions, variables, services or a storage backend.
  *
- * @stable for subclassing
+ * @stable to extend
  * @since 1.34
  */
 abstract class MediaWikiUnitTestCase extends TestCase {