extra point

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   in American football a point awarded for a successful place kick following a touchdown

   Synonymspoint afterpoint after touchdown

   Broaderconversionpoint

   American football

Questions about extra point

What does extra point mean?

extra point means "in American football a point awarded for a successful place kick following a touchdown".

What is another word for extra point?

Close synonyms include point after, point after touchdown. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is extra point a common word?

extra point is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.