find number of occurance of a substring in a string code example

Example: number of occurence in string

public class StringNumberOfOccurenceLetter {

    private static int countOccurences(String word, char character){

        int count = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < word.length() ; i++) {
            if (word.charAt(i)==character){
                count++;
            }
        }
        return count;

    }
         public static void main(String[] args) {


        int count = countOccurences("dddssad", 'a');
    }

}