conditions in if statement in C not working while using &&, despite working separately

My if statement has two conditions, as follows:

 if((strcasecmp(&word[0], &j) == 0) && (strlen(word) == i))

If the condition contains only one of these two, that is,

if(strcasecmp(&word[0], &j) == 0)

or

if(strlen(word) == i)

it returns true when either of the two conditions are run, so they are both true separately. However, when I put them together like this, it returns false.

The statement is inside two nested for loops, as follows:

 for(int i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++)
{
    for(char j = 'a'; j <= 'z'; j++)
    {
        if((strcasecmp(&word[0], &j) == 0) && (strlen(word) == i))
        {
            //code here
        }
    }
}

(word is a const char *, length is a constant defined as 45).

Anyone know why this is happening?