are vs aren't

are

noun
  • An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) metric unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a. 

aren't

verb
  • A contraction of “am not”, used e.g. in the construction "aren’t I?" 

  • are not (negative auxiliary) 

How often have the words are and aren't occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )