diff --git a/pkg/yqlib/expression_processing_test.go b/pkg/yqlib/expression_processing_test.go
index 296c174..d7ebbd0 100644
--- a/pkg/yqlib/expression_processing_test.go
+++ b/pkg/yqlib/expression_processing_test.go
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ var pathTests = []struct {
 	expectedPostFix []interface{}
 }{
 	{
-		`.a as $item reduce (0; . + $item)`, // note - add code to shuffle reduce to this position for postfix
+		`.a as $item ireduce (0; . + $item)`, // note - add code to shuffle reduce to this position for postfix
 		append(make([]interface{}, 0), "a", "ASSIGN_VARIABLE", "GET_VARIABLE", "REDUCE", "(", "0 (int64)", "BLOCK", "SELF", "ADD", "GET_VARIABLE", ")"),
 		append(make([]interface{}, 0), "a", "GET_VARIABLE", "ASSIGN_VARIABLE", "0 (int64)", "SELF", "GET_VARIABLE", "ADD", "BLOCK", "REDUCE"),
 	},
diff --git a/pkg/yqlib/expression_tokeniser.go b/pkg/yqlib/expression_tokeniser.go
index 2f84cd4..b8b0683 100644
--- a/pkg/yqlib/expression_tokeniser.go
+++ b/pkg/yqlib/expression_tokeniser.go
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ func initLexer() (*lex.Lexer, error) {
 	lexer.Add([]byte(`or`), opToken(orOpType))
 	lexer.Add([]byte(`and`), opToken(andOpType))
 	lexer.Add([]byte(`not`), opToken(notOpType))
-	lexer.Add([]byte(`reduce`), opToken(reduceOpType))
+	lexer.Add([]byte(`ireduce`), opToken(reduceOpType))
 	lexer.Add([]byte(`;`), opToken(blockOpType))
 	lexer.Add([]byte(`\/\/`), opToken(alternativeOpType))
 
diff --git a/pkg/yqlib/operator_reduce_test.go b/pkg/yqlib/operator_reduce_test.go
index 7e9500d..acff721 100644
--- a/pkg/yqlib/operator_reduce_test.go
+++ b/pkg/yqlib/operator_reduce_test.go
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import (
 var reduceOperatorScenarios = []expressionScenario{
 	{
 		document:   `[10,2, 5, 3]`,
-		expression: `.[] as $item reduce (0; . + $item)`,
+		expression: `.[] as $item ireduce (0; . + $item)`,
 		expected: []string{
 			"D0, P[], (!!int)::20\n",
 		},