The same three letters can fill the blanks to complete the partial words below. (The three letters make up a word in their own right.) Two of the words are less-frequently used. What are the letters/word?

1. _ _ _ EL

2. AR _ _ _

3. G _ _ _ L 

4. G _ _ _ N

5. B _ _ _ SE

6. FAR _ _ _

 

Answers:

 

The letters are/the word is ROW: 

1. ROWEL*

2. ARROW

3. GROWL

4. GROWN

5. BROWSE

6. FARROW*

 

*1. A rowel is the small rotating wheel at the end of a spur.

 

*6. (Of a sow) to give birth to piglets

      (As a noun) a litter of pigs