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konstantynopolitańczykowianeczka - a young girl from Constantinople.
This isn't real word though, just an (admittedly old) meme.
Longest Polish word that is in official dictionary is "pięćdziesięciogroszówka" (50 groszy coin, half of 1 PLN) - 23 letters
Of course it's not that simple because in Polish the numerals can be joined and can be much longer, for example "dziewięćsetdziewięćdziesięciodziewięcioipółletni" (999,5 years old) - 48 letters.
And if somebondy wants to talk about their really distant ancestors (nobody do though, at least not in such manner), we could pile up the "pra" (grand) prefix to infinity creating prapraprapraprapra[...]dziadek.
No word is real. Words are made up. If enough people say the word it is a word.
Yeah, but the point is no one uses that word outside this very specific meme. Well ok, there was also incredibly bad Winnie the Pooh parody 25 years ago which used it as a part of even longer word, but i don't think that counts.