B.

Spelling
Spelling is very important part of police report writing. (Ask the class to give examples of common
misspelled words. Do a class activity. Divide the class into two groups and do a quiz bee.)
The following list, of about 350 words, is based on documented lists of the top 100, 200, or 400 most
commonly misspelled words in all variants of the English language, rather than listing every conceivable
misspelled word. Each word is followed by examples of misspellings :

A–B

 absence – abcense, absance[3][10]

 acceptable – acceptible[4]
 accidentally/accidently – accidentaly[4]
 accommodate – accomodate, acommodate[3][4]
 achieve – acheive[3]
 acknowledge – acknowlege, aknowledge[3]
 acquaintance – acquaintence, aquaintance[3]
 acquire – aquire, adquire[4]
 acquit – aquit[4]
 believe – beleive[4]
 bellwether – bellweather[3][4]
 buoy/buoyant – bouy/bouyant[3]
 business – buisness[1]
C–D

 calendar – calender[3][4]
 camouflage – camoflage, camoflague[3]
 capitol – capital[3] (both words exist, but are distinct)
 Caribbean – Carribean[3]
 category – catagory[3][4]
 caught – cauhgt, caugt[3]
 cemetery – cemetary,[1] cematery[3]
 changeable – changable[3][4]
 chief – cheif[3]
 colleague – collaegue, collegue[3]
 column – colum[4]
 coming – comming[3]
 committed – commited, comitted[3][4]
 comparison – comparsion
 concede – conceed[3]
 congratulate – congradulate[3]
 conscientious – consciencious[3][4]
 conscious – concious, consious[4]
 consensus – concensus[1][3][4]
 controversy – contraversy[1]
 coolly – cooly[3]
 daiquiri – dacquiri, daquiri[4]
 deceive – decieve[1][3]
 definite – definate,[1] definit[4]
 definitely – definitly,[4] definately defiantly
 desperate – desparate[1][3]
 difference – diffrence[3]
 dilemma – dilema[3]
 disappoint – dissapoint[1]
 disastrous – disasterous[3]
 drunkenness – drunkeness[4]
 dumbbell – dumbell[4]
E–H

 embarrass – embarass[1][4]
 equipment – equiptment (wrong in numerous webpages)[4]
 exceed – excede[4]
 exhilarate – exilerate[4]
 existence – existance[4]
 experience – experiance[4]
 extreme – extreem[1]
 fascinating – facinating[1]
 fiery – firey[4]
 fluorescent – flourescent[1]
 foreign – foriegn[4]
 friend – freind[1]
 fulfil – fullfil (American: fulfill)[1]
 gauge – guage[1][4]
 grateful – gratefull, greatful[1][4]
 guarantee – garantee, garentee, garanty[1][4][10]
 guidance – guidence[11]
 harass – harrass[1][4]
 height – heighth, heigth[4]
 hierarchy – heirarchy[4]
 hors d'oeuvres – hors derves, ordeurves[3]
 humorous – humerous[4]
 hygiene – hygene, hygine, hiygeine, higeine, hygeine[3]
hypocrisy/hypocrite – hipocrit[1][3]