Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

reserved word

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.15 in modern English

Syllables: re-served -word
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A string of characters that is a verb, command, or other part of a programming language, and therefore cannot be used as the name of a variable, constant, function, or procedure.

Inflected Forms

reserved words (plural)

Questions

What does reserved word mean?: A string of characters that is a verb, command, or other part of a programming language, and therefore cannot be used as the name of a variable, constant, function, or procedure.

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