Washington · sequential passenger map
Washington license-plate format
Washington passenger plates use three letters and four digits, typically without a dash. 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
- AAA9999
- Classes
- 3 letters + 4 digits
- Alphabet size
- 26
- Skipped letters
- none modelled
- Combination count
- 175,760,000
- Model year
- 2010
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 AAA9999 are display only.
Washington’s Evergreen State plates moved through ABC-1234 into a no-dash seven-character block as cameras and dies simplified.
Before this map, Washington used ABC-1234 and mountain graphic resets. Optional graphics (universities, military, environmental) can look nothing like the sequential passenger die and are not counted in the 175,760,000 figure.
SPR9932 matches the skeleton. Display may add a hyphen only as a normalisation.
Generated versus issued
A string that fits AAA9999 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.