West Virginia · sequential passenger map
West Virginia license-plate format
West Virginia passenger plates mix a digit-letter-digit prefix with 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
- 9A9 999
- Classes
- 1 letter + 5 digits
- Alphabet size
- 26
- Skipped letters
- none modelled
- Combination count
- 2,600,000
- Model year
- 2015
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 2,600,000 — the size of the sequential space taught here. Hyphens, spaces and dots in 9A9 999 are display only.
Yellow-on-blue West Virginia plates kept a short mixed serial rather than ABC-1234.
Before this map, West Virginia used 1AB 234 county flavoured. Optional graphics (universities, military, environmental) can look nothing like the sequential passenger die and are not counted in the 2,600,000 figure.
SPR 9932 does not match the 9A9 999 teaching map.
Generated versus issued
A string that fits 9A9 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.