Android SQLite not processing "where length(word) > 10" using wildcard in place of 10

This works fine to return all longer-than-10-character strings from my Android SQLite database:

 cursor = ___database.query(TABLE_NAME, mColumns, "length(word) > 10", 
          null, null, null, null);

Why doesn't this?

 cursor = ___database.query(TABLE_NAME, mColumns, "length(word) > ?",  
          new String[]{"10"}, null, null, null);

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P.S. SO suggested adding Tag regex, but Android SQLite doesn't support it... does it? I mention this because maybe length doesn't work like I expect, either....

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But:

    length(X)   For a string value X, the length(X) function returns the number
 of characters (not bytes) in X prior to the first NUL character. Since SQLite
 strings do **not normally** contain NUL characters, the length(X) function will
 **usually** return the total number of characters in the string X. For a blob value
 X, length(X) returns the number of bytes in the blob. If X is NULL then
 length(X) is NULL. If X is numeric then length(X) returns the length of a
 string representation of X.