Utah · sequential passenger map
Utah license-plate format
Utah passenger plates interleave one letter, two digits, a space, one digit and two letters. 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
- A99 9AA
- Classes
- 3 letters + 3 digits
- Alphabet size
- 26
- Skipped letters
- none modelled
- Combination count
- 17,576,000
- Model year
- 2008
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 A99 9AA are display only.
Utah left a simple ABC-123 as the arches graphic continued. The A99 9AA map is the sequential passenger teaching format.
Before this map, Utah used ABC-123 Arches issues. 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 is not interleaved and does not match Utah.
Generated versus issued
A string that fits A99 9AA 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.