Vermont · sequential passenger map
Vermont license-plate format
Vermont passenger plates use three letters, a space, and three digits on the green landscape graphic. 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
- 1985
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.
Vermont’s green plates are iconic. The three-by-three serial replaced older numeric runs as the fleet grew, without ever going to a four-digit tail.
Before this map, Vermont used green numeric plates. 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 is out of class.
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.