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title: Keywords
description: Keywords are reserved tokens for built-in language features. Errors If a keyword is used as an identifier.Keywords 
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2350/reference/scripting-languages/painless/painless-keywords
products:
  - Painless
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# Keywords
Keywords are reserved tokens for built-in language features.
**Errors**
- If a keyword is used as an [identifier](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2350/reference/scripting-languages/painless/painless-identifiers).

**Keywords**

|     |          |       |        |            |
|-----|----------|-------|--------|------------|
| if  | else     | while | do     | for        |
| in  | continue | break | return | new        |
| try | catch    | throw | this   | instanceof |