NSPredicate获取NSManagedObject的字符串属性的长度

这是我一直在尝试的一个例子,我有种感觉字母.长度表示法,我也尝试了kvc字母。@length,但没有成功。。我做错什么了?

NSManagedObjectContext *context = ...;
NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Word" inManagedObjectContext:context];
[fetchRequest setEntity:entity];

NSSortDescriptor *sortDescriptor = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:@"letters" ascending:YES];
NSArray *sortDescriptors = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:sortDescriptor, nil];
[fetchRequest setSortDescriptors:sortDescriptors];

NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"letters.length BETWEEN %@", [NSArray arrayWithObjects: [NSNumber numberWithInt:5], [NSNumber numberWithInt:20], nil]];
[fetchRequest setPredicate:predicate];

NSUInteger limit = 20;
[fetchRequest setFetchLimit:limit];

NSError *error = nil;
NSArray *fetchedObjects = [context executeFetchRequest:fetchRequest error:&error];