Top 20 Most Famous A Words

Of the 1000 most commonly used English words, 81 start with A. Which 20 of those have been named most often in these quizzes?
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Source quiz: Oxford Dictionaries Top 1000 Words Starting With A by PSTSCCH
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Last updated: December 7, 2014
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First submittedDecember 6, 2014
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word
100
a
53
able
47
about
40
above
57
act
57
add
57
after
32
again
47
age
32
aim
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word
36
air
81
all
92
and
34
answer
47
any
43
arm
53
art
96
as
55
ask
91
at
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Level 90
Dec 7, 2014
No are?
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Level 76
Dec 7, 2014
No, and it's not even in the 81 Top-1000 A words. (On Wiktionary's Top 1000 word frequency list, are is ranked at number 36). I've just written to Oxford Dictionaries to ask if that omission is deliberate or a mistake. If they reply, I'll post the response here.