diff --git a/reference/strings/functions/str-word-count.xml b/reference/strings/functions/str-word-count.xml
index c5c4435cfb..cb4a0c6e07 100644
--- a/reference/strings/functions/str-word-count.xml
+++ b/reference/strings/functions/str-word-count.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.1 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.2 $ -->
   <refentry id="function.str-word-count">
    <refnamediv>
     <refname>str_word_count</refname>
@@ -43,6 +43,61 @@
      string containing alphabetic characters, which also may contain, but not start
      with &quot;'&quot; and &quot;-&quot; characters.
     </para>
+    <para>
+     <example>
+      <title>Example uses for <function>str_word_count</function></title>
+      <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+
+$str = "Hello friend, you're
+        looking          good today!";
+
+$a   = str_word_count($str, 1);
+$b   = str_word_count($str, 2);
+$c   = str_word_count($str);
+
+print_r($a);
+print_r($b);
+print $c;
+
+/* Output may look like:
+
+Array
+(
+    [0] => Hello
+    [1] => friend
+    [2] => you're
+    [3] => looking
+    [4] => good
+    [5] => today
+)
+
+Array
+(
+    [0] => Hello
+    [6] => friend
+    [14] => you're
+    [29] => looking
+    [46] => good
+    [51] => today
+)
+
+6
+
+*/
+?>
+]]>
+      </programlisting>
+     </example>
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     See also <function>explode</function>,
+     <function>preg_split</function>,
+     <function>split</function>,
+     <function>count_chars</function>, and
+     <function>substr_count</function>.
+    </para>
    </refsect1>
   </refentry>