Identify the INCORRECTLY spelt word in the given sentence. Despite their…

Concept

A small family of English words derived from related Latin verbs — abhor, adhere, cohere, and inhere (Latin abhorrere, adhaerere, cohaerere, inhaerere) — conventionally form their corresponding noun with the ending '-ence': abhorrence, adherence, coherence, inherence. This is a recognised spelling family rather than a fully general phonetic rule; English also has many words that take '-ance' despite a similar sound (e.g. appearance, attendance), so any individual '-ance'/'-ence' spelling is best confirmed against a standard dictionary or by recalling the specific word family it belongs to.

Application

• injustice: prefix 'in-' + 'justice' — this matches its standard dictionary spelling.

• abhorrance: the noun form of 'abhor', which belongs to the abhor/adhere/cohere/inhere family described above and therefore takes '-ence', giving the dictionary form 'abhorrence'. The spelling 'abhorrance' (with '-ance') does not match this, so it is a misspelling.

• institutional: 'institution' + suffix '-al', with '-titu-' and '-tion' kept intact — this matches its standard dictionary spelling.

• disapproval: prefix 'dis-' + 'approval' (from 'approve'), with the double 'p' retained — this matches its standard dictionary spelling.

Cross-check

• injustice, institutional, and disapproval each match their entries in a standard dictionary exactly.

• abhorrance fails this check: standard dictionaries list only 'abhorrence'; 'abhorrance' is not a recognised spelling variant.

Therefore, the incorrectly spelt word in the sentence is 'abhorrance' — the dictionary-correct spelling is 'abhorrence', following the same '-ence' pattern as adherence, coherence, and inherence.