Cs50 speller: not recognising any incorrect words - linked-list

I'm currently working on the CS50 Speller function. I have managed to compile my code and have finished a prototype of the full program, however it does not work (it doesn't recognise any mispelled words). I am looking through my functions one at a time and printing out their output to have a look at what's going on inside.
// Loads dictionary into memory, returning true if successful else false
bool load(const char *dictionary)
{
char word[LENGTH + 1];
int counter = 0;
FILE *dicptr = fopen(dictionary, "r");
if (dicptr == NULL)
{
printf("Could not open file\n");
return 1;
}
while (fscanf(dicptr, "%s", word) != EOF)
{
printf("%s", word);
node *n = malloc(sizeof(node));
if (n == NULL)
{
unload();
printf("Memory Error\n");
return false;
}
strcpy(n->word, word);
int h = hash(n->word);
n->next = table[h];
table[h] = n;
amount++;
}
fclose(dicptr);
return true;
}
From what I can see this works fine. Which makes me wonder if the issue is with my check function as shown here:
bool check(const char *word)
{
int n = strlen(word);
char copy[n + 1];
copy[n] = '\0';
for(int i = 0; i < n; i++)
{
copy[i] = tolower(word[i]);
printf("%c", copy[i]);
}
printf("\n");
node *cursor = table[hash(copy)];
while(cursor != NULL)
{
if(strcasecmp(cursor->word, word))
{
return true;
}
cursor = cursor->next;
}
return false;
}
If someone with a keener eye can spy what is the issue I'd be very grateful as I'm stumped. The first function is used to load a the words from a dictionary into a hash table\linked list. The second function is supposed to check the words of a txt file to see if they match with any of the terms in the linked list. If not then they should be counted as incorrect.

This if(strcasecmp(cursor->word, word)) is a problem. From man strcasecmp:
Return Value
The strcasecmp() and strncasecmp() functions return an
integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if s1 (or the first
n bytes thereof) is found, respectively, to be less than, to match, or
be greater than s2.
If the words match, it returns 0, which evaluates to false.

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Here is my solution for anyone interested:
void __fastcall TSetDataForm::ProbabilityGridKeyPress(TObject *Sender, System::WideChar &Key)
{
if( Key == VK_BACK )
return;
if( !((Key >= L'0') && (Key <= L'9') || (Key == L'.')))
{
ShowMessage("Please enter numerals only");
Key = 0;
}
else if ((Key == L'.') &&
(Pos(Key, ProbabilityGrid->Cells[ProbabilityGrid->Col][ProbabilityGrid->Row]) > 0))
{
ShowMessage("Two dots!");
Key = 0;
}
}

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...
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...
example:
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