It seems like preg_split('/\s+/u', $va...on\PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY) can also be of type false; however, parameter $var of count() does only seem to accept Countable|array, maybe add an additional type check?
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If this is a false-positive, you can also ignore this issue in your code via the ignore-type annotation