  A group-word $w$ is called concise if the verbal subgroup $w(G)$ is finite
whenever $w$ takes only finitely many values in a group $G$. It is known that
there are words that are not concise. The problem whether every word is concise
in the class of profinite groups remains wide open. Moreover, there is a
conjecture that every word $w$ is strongly concise in profinite groups, that
is, $w(G)$ is finite whenever $G$ is a profinite group in which $w$ takes less
than $2^{\aleph_0}$ values. In this paper we show that if the word $w$ takes
less than $2^{\aleph_0}$ values in a profinite group $G$ then $w(w(G))$ is
finite.
