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How to spell profile

hear itpro·file/'proʊfaɪl/nounRules and real life

What it means: An outline or side view of something.

In a sentence: She drew a side profile of her pet cat.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as profil or profiel.

Same family: profiles, profiling, high-profile, low-profile, professional-profile. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Profile comes from the Italian word "profilo," meaning an outline or contour, originally referring to a side view of a face in art. Over time, it expanded from describing a physical outline to describing the public image or visibility of a person, group, or organization.

Patterns it uses: i before e?

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