diff --git a/convert-falcon-hf-to-gguf.py b/convert-falcon-hf-to-gguf.py
index f72068dee..339c8e4c5 100755
--- a/convert-falcon-hf-to-gguf.py
+++ b/convert-falcon-hf-to-gguf.py
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ for i in range(vocab_size):
         print(f"Key {i} not in tokenizer vocabulary. Padding with an arbitrary token.")
         pad_token = f"[PAD{i}]".encode("utf8")
         text = bytearray(pad_token)
-    else if i in added_tokens:
+    elif i in added_tokens:
         # these tokens are not encoded, see https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/1133
         text = bytearray(reverse_vocab[i].encode('utf-8'))
     else:
diff --git a/convert-gptneox-hf-to-gguf.py b/convert-gptneox-hf-to-gguf.py
index e47df20ea..80b09110f 100755
--- a/convert-gptneox-hf-to-gguf.py
+++ b/convert-gptneox-hf-to-gguf.py
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ for i in range(vocab_size):
         print(f"Key {i} not in tokenizer vocabulary. Padding with an arbitrary token.")
         pad_token = f"[PAD{i}]".encode("utf8")
         text = bytearray(pad_token)
-    else if i in added_tokens:
+    elif i in added_tokens:
         # these tokens are not encoded, see https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/1133
         text = bytearray(reverse_vocab[i].encode('utf-8'))
     else:
diff --git a/convert-starcoder-hf-to-gguf.py b/convert-starcoder-hf-to-gguf.py
index e1647f834..0e0a1ccc7 100755
--- a/convert-starcoder-hf-to-gguf.py
+++ b/convert-starcoder-hf-to-gguf.py
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ for i in range(vocab_size):
         print(f"Key {i} not in tokenizer vocabulary. Padding with an arbitrary token.")
         pad_token = f"[PAD{i}]".encode("utf8")
         text = bytearray(pad_token)
-    else if i in added_tokens:
+    elif i in added_tokens:
         # these tokens are not encoded, see https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/1133
         text = bytearray(reverse_vocab[i].encode('utf-8'))
     else: