Virginia · sequential passenger map
Virginia license-plate format
Virginia passenger plates use three letters, a hyphen, and four 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-9999
- Classes
- 3 letters + 4 digits
- Alphabet size
- 26
- Skipped letters
- none modelled
- Combination count
- 175,760,000
- Model year
- 1994
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 175,760,000 — the size of the sequential space taught here. Hyphens, spaces and dots in AAA-9999 are display only.
Virginia standardised on ABC-1234 for sequential passenger issues well before many peer states. Graphic revisions (including website slogans) did not change the skeleton.
Before this map, Virginia used ABC-1234 and earlier ABC 123. Optional graphics (universities, military, environmental) can look nothing like the sequential passenger die and are not counted in the 175,760,000 figure.
SPR-9932 matches. It is still a generated example in this atlas.
Generated versus issued
A string that fits AAA-9999 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.