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redpoint

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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Definition of redpoint

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To free-climb (a route), while lead climbing, after having practiced the route beforehand.

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Etymology

From red + point, as a calque of German Rotpunkt, coined by Kurt Albert in the mid-1970s at Frankenjura. He would paint a red X on a fixed pin that he could avoid using for a foothold or handhold.

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