diff --git a/reference/strings/functions/count-chars.xml b/reference/strings/functions/count-chars.xml
index 0962e16149..34104ad7fe 100644
--- a/reference/strings/functions/count-chars.xml
+++ b/reference/strings/functions/count-chars.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.5 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.6 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/strings.xml, last change in rev 1.4 -->
   <refentry id="function.count-chars">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     <para>
      Counts the number of occurrences of every byte-value (0..255) in
      <parameter>string</parameter> and returns it in various ways.
-     The optional parameter <parameter>mode</parameter> default to
+     The optional parameter <parameter>mode</parameter> defaults to
      0. Depending on <parameter>mode</parameter>
      <function>count_chars</function> returns one of the following:
      <itemizedlist>