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Reserved word used as name

Reports a JavaScript reserved word used as a name. The JavaScript specification reserves a number of words which are currently not used as keywords. Using those words as identifiers may result in broken code if later versions of JavaScript start using them as keywords.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

ReservedWordAsName
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | JavaScript and TypeScript | Validity issues

Inspection ID: ReservedWordUsedAsNameJS

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection ReservedWordAsName

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025