CodePudding user response:
The error is in is_word(board.copy()[i], word[1:], i, j 1): you pass a list of strings board.copy()[i] as the first parameter instead of a list of lists of strings. Remove the [i].

CodePudding user response:
The error is in is_word(board.copy()[i], word[1:], i, j 1): you pass a list of strings board.copy()[i] as the first parameter instead of a list of lists of strings. Remove the [i].