Michigan personalized & vanity plates
What Michigan lets you spell on a plate, and how to check availability yourself.
Plate Gator can't check Michigan availability automatically
Michigan's Plate It Your Way lookup is free and public — no account needed — but it is gated by reCAPTCHA. Plate Gator does not use CAPTCHA solvers, so this state must be checked by hand at the linked page.
So the only way to know for sure is to ask Michigan directly — the preview above still works, but Plate Gator will not run a live check for Michigan.
Michigan plate format rules
- Length
- 1–7 characters.
- Allowed characters
- Letters A–Z and numbers 0–9 only.
- Not issued
- Plates containing “O”.
The letter O is not permitted — the number 0 is substituted. 7-character plates are limited to the Standard White, Mackinac Bridge and Disabled Veteran designs; other plate types max 6. A configuration may not duplicate another plate or carry a connotation disparaging a group or promoting hate or violence.