How to pass string as parameter to thread in C

I'm new to C and programming and I'm trying to pass a string to a thread for later manipulation. I tried creating the string using the array char string[] = "word"and passing it to the thread - pointers with char *word = "word"no luck now . How to pass string as parameter to thread?

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h> // exit calls
#include <pthread.h> // contains thread package

void *print_string_in_reverse_order(void *str)
{
    char *string = (char *)str;
    printf("%s\n", *string); // this won't print anything

    pthread_exit(NULL); // exit the thread
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    pthread_t threadID;
    char *word = "word"; //should this be an array?
    printf("In function main(): Creating a new thread\n");

    // create a new thread in the calling process
    int status = pthread_create(&threadID, NULL, print_string_in_reverse_order, (void *)&word);

}