# Grammar and types — Variable scope

> A variable may belong to one of the following scopes Global scope: The default scope for all code running in script mode.

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A variable may belong to one of the following scopes

Global scope: The default scope for all code running in script mode. Module scope: The scope for code running in module mode. Function scope: The scope created with a {{Glossary("function")}}.

In addition, variables declared with let or const can belong to an additional scope

Block scope: The scope created with a pair of curly braces (a block).

When you declare a variable outside of any function, it is called a _global_ variable, because it is available to any other code in the current document. When you declare a variable within a function, it is called a _local_ variable, because it is available only within that function.

let and const declarations can also be scoped to the block statement that they are declared in.

However, variables created with var are not block-scoped, but only local to the _function (or global scope)_ that the block resides within.

For example, the following code will log 5, because the scope of x is the global context (or the function context if the code is part of a function). The scope of x is not limited to the immediate if statement block.

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