Rhode Island personalized & vanity plates
What Rhode Island lets you spell on a plate, and how to check availability yourself.
Plate Gator can't check Rhode Island availability automatically
Rhode Island's vanity plate program is paused, so no availability check is offered.
So the only way to know for sure is to ask Rhode Island directly — the preview above still works, but Plate Gator will not run a live check for Rhode Island.
Rhode Island plate format rules
- Length
- 2–6 characters.
- Allowed characters
- Letters A–Z and numbers 0–9 only.
Two to six characters (motorcycle vanity 2 to 5), and no duplicate of an existing plate in any vehicle class. RI DMV is reportedly not accepting new vanity plate applications at present.