<P> The longest non-technical word in major dictionaries is floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters . Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless"; its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741 . </P> <P> Ross Eckler has noted that most of the longest English words are not likely to occur in general text, meaning non-technical present - day text seen by casual readers, in which the author did not specifically intend to use an unusually long word . According to Eckler, the longest words likely to be encountered in general text are deinstitutionalization and counterrevolutionaries, with 22 letters each . </P> <P> A computer study of over a million samples of normal English prose found that the longest word one is likely to encounter on an everyday basis is uncharacteristically, at 20 letters . </P> <P> The word internationalization is abbreviated "i18n", the embedded number representing the number of letters between the first and the last . </P>

What word in the english language has the most syllables