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profiler

noun

profiler is spelled P-R-O-F-I-L-E-R: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,633rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, profiler means “A mechanical device that cuts complex, irregular shapes by tracing a pattern” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of profiler is profilers.

How many letters and syllables are in profiler?

Letters8: P-R-O-F-I-L-E-R
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 47,633rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is profiler?

Profiler appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,633rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of profiler

  • profilers plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does profiler mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A mechanical device that cuts complex, irregular shapes by tracing a pattern.

  2. 2

    A person who creates a profile for something or someone, especially a psychological profile for an unknown criminal.

  3. 3

    A device that analyzes something and builds up a profile.

    a sediment profiler

  4. 4

    A software program that measures the performance of different portions of another program in order to locate bottlenecks.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Profiler in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Spanishgenerador de perfiles (mechanical device), perfilador (person who creates a profile for something or…)
GermanProfiler, Profilerin, Profilersteller, Profilerstellerin, Fallanalytiker, Fallanalytikerin (person who creates a profile for something or…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does profiler come from?

From profile + -er.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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