Just as a follow-up, I'm not sure which post you're referring to, but this one:
[EMBED content="thread-253"]https://sportscardarena.com/threads/basketball-cards-for-trade-updated-2-5-2025-part-1.253/[/EMBED]
The first post in that thread contains 46,606 characters and 6,553 words. Perhaps when you're pasting it into Word it's counting the words, rather than the characters?