#9911: doc copyedits.
diff --git a/Doc/library/profile.rst b/Doc/library/profile.rst
index c3632f9..472a88c 100644
--- a/Doc/library/profile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/profile.rst
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@
    integers, you can also invoke the class constructor with a second argument
    specifying the real duration of one unit of time.  For example, if
    :func:`your_integer_time_func` returns times measured in thousands of seconds,
-   you would constuct the :class:`Profile` instance as follows::
+   you would construct the :class:`Profile` instance as follows::
 
       pr = profile.Profile(your_integer_time_func, 0.001)