profil
French, noun/pʁɔ.fil/
profil is spelled P-R-O-F-I-L (6 letters) and appears 37 times per million words in written French, the 2,223rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Profil is a French masculine noun meaning “profile” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Contour, ligne du visage d’une personne, d’un animal ou d’une chose, vu de côté”.
What does profil mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineprofile
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Contour, ligne du visage d’une personne, d’un animal ou d’une chose, vu de côté. 2. Traits caractéristiques, en particulier psychologiques, d’une personne. 3. Coupe, aspect, représentation d’une chose, vue d’un de ses côtés. 4. Coupe perpendiculaire, élévation d’un bâtiment.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of profil
- profils plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce profil?
- /pʁɔ.fil/
- \pʁɔ.fil\
- [pʁɔ.fil]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to profil
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is profil in French?
profil appears 37 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).