Nebraska · sequential passenger map
Nebraska license-plate format
Nebraska passenger plates use three letters, a space, and three digits. In this atlas the pattern string uses A for a letter slot and 9 for a digit slot. Other characters are separators that appear on the metal but do not enlarge the combination space.
- Pattern
- AAA 999
- Classes
- 3 letters + 3 digits
- Alphabet size
- 26
- Skipped letters
- none modelled
- Combination count
- 17,576,000
- Model year
- 2005
How the map works
Each A slot independently takes one glyph from ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Each 9 slot takes 0–9. The product of those bases is 17,576,000 — the size of the sequential space taught here. Hyphens, spaces and dots in AAA 999 are display only.
Nebraska moved off county-number bases onto a statewide three-by-three serial while keeping a sky graphic.
Before this map, Nebraska used county-coded 12-A123. Optional graphics (universities, military, environmental) can look nothing like the sequential passenger die and are not counted in the 17,576,000 figure.
SPR 9932 has four digits and so does not match.
Generated versus issued
A string that fits AAA 999 is in-class. It is not automatically an issued plate. Series can skip blocks, retire numbers, or reserve low digits. This essay never queries a motor-vehicle file. See also generated vs issued.