guy who only knows i18n, trembling: and... this 'l33t' you speak of?
echo $(($(echo antidisestablishmentarianism | sed 's/./1+/g')0))
28

its 7 letters longer than the longest non-contrived, non-technical english word wikipedia lists

@mothcompute this was a really interesting way to count characters; I will insist though that:

echo -n antidisestablishmentarianism | wc -c

is more readable…