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In school "mainly in English" teachers would accuse me of cheating. This included teachers who liked me and knew me well. They would every so often ask if I plagiarized a paper. Even though I was never one to cheat and took pride in my work.
It's happened to me too. Even my own parents have accused me of cheating just because I wrote in a way that "sounded too grown up" :/
I don't know how common it is, but the same thing happened to me.
I can be a bit of grammar and spelling nazi sometimes, and especially when I'm writing something for school. So one time, my science teacher accused me of plagiarizing on an exam that I took because I had spelled everything CORRECTLY. She even went so far as to send an email to the entire class about why plagiarizing was wrong, how someone did that to her in the past, etc. So from then on I actually had to spell a few words wrong ON PURPOSE, on any exams that I took, just to not be accused again.
It happened to me a few times in grade school before people actually knew me fairly well. I used to read all the time when I was younger and so my vocabulary was not what was expected of a 12 year old. I ended up getting asked to define a whole slew of words in my paper to prove I hadn't been plagiarizing.
It just seems odd to me that it was teachers that knew you well that were accusing you.