Python 3, 148 143 140 bytes
import re s,c,n=list(input()+'1'),[],0 while s:c,n=(c,n+1)if re.match('[a-zA-Z]',s.pop(0))else(c+[n]if n else c,0) print(max(c,key=c.count)) Uses regex to check if character is a letter of the English alphabet and adds the count of all consecutive alphabets to a list and finds the mode of that list.
-3 bytes thanks to Rahul Verma